Web Innovations Online

Many have jumped onto the highly hyped Web 2.0 and today it has become more a part of everyday life that many cannot survive without it and keep their insanity. This might sound a bit too extreme but take a look at the guy next to you on the bus and for sure they’d be on twitter or some other mobile social networking system. Much has changed on the technology we know as the internet and things are changing al the time for the web is in a state of constant flux. It never sleeps, for as a part of the world slumbers another day has just begun on the other side of the globe. The internet has invaded all aspects of daily life, even the most remote regions of the earth. The future holds the next step in the evolutionary step that takes us closer to and intelligent web.

Yahoo pipes has been hailed as a partial success by the many people who benefit from its use on the internet. Pipes is simply a feedback system that is accessible to both users and developers allowing interaction at an unprecedented scale, real-time. Having feedback on your products that are time sensitive and specifically targeted allows improvements and adjustments to be made in real-time and on the fly. You don’t have to wait for months but rather hours or a mere minute for critical changes to be made to a failing system. There might be more to the story as innovations continue to make the web friendlier for us humans whoa re mistake-prone and tomorrow would have a better and brighter internet for all to use and share.

These gadgets already have cousins in the market but the introduction of a smaller more powerful processor loaded with better power management and consumption would allow longer battery charges. Internet enabled devices are now entering the market as the online world expands into every aspect of daily life. These devices are void of hard disk storage and sometimes even the CD-DVD combo drives which are the main power guzzlers that consume the battery’s charge fast. Eliminating them and minimizing the use of motors within the device decreases immensely the need for big batteries and support systems such as power supply and management systems. Storage comes in the form of internal flash disks which allows the computer to function and expansion slots for memory upgrades are available. Additional storage requirements can be augmented with external flash disks.

Intel, the largest manufacturer has just announced the release of it’s new line of small-footprint, low-power microprocessors designed for the growing mobile computing market. Designated Atom, the said microprocessor has received pledges from most of the world’s manufacturer of mobile computers such as Mobile Internet Devices(MID’s), Internet-Focused notebooks and Desktops, they utilize the world’s smallest transistors showcasing the companies advanced technology in chip design and development. There are actually two products that will carry the Atom logo namely; The pure Intel Atom which would be for mobile internet devices and the Intel Centrino which is aimed at the internet focused notebook market which we are beginning to see coming into the market.

Many companies have under estimated the volume of network traffic even with the most high-tech firms succumbing to the problem. Microsoft�s Xbox Live service bogged down leaving some clients to file lawsuits for services that were not provided as promised. In attempts to initiate damage control, the company has announced that subscribers are to get a free game which is also being fast-tracked to cool down hot-headed clients but the damage has been done and many are pissed at how they handled the situation.

This is a common problem with web-based applications for unlike local services and products, the resources that are being used are not dedicated leaving a whole lot of the information necessary for the system to work to web servers and other providers who might not be on the same bandwagon. The web-based games network failed miserably as too many users logged in and joined online games taking up too much bandwidth resulting in r\frequent dropping from the network play system and other issues associated with network resources. This is one of the unknowns of the internet for as we all know, technology has to stop somewhere for too much ends up in wasted resources and too little, well see for yourself the many complaints Microsoft has gotten from their Xbox Live problems which continues to this day. The holidays has the highest demand levels in terms of network resources as these multi-million dollar companies vie for more and more of the on-line gaming market they forget to take a step back and look at their support and other hardware infrastructures to anticipate and prepare for unseens.