As USA TODAY, the Nation's No. 1 Newspaper, puts it, "[Tim Berners-Lee] has been compared to Johannes Gutenberg, who invented the printing press, which in turn changed religion, government and science. . . . It's bizarre to even think that there is a living, breathing inventor of the Web. He's funny and likable and about as intimidating as that Pikachu runt from my kids' Pokemon collection." Few people can name the inventor of the World Wide Web - and that's how he prefers it. Tim Berners-Lee - born in 1955 to parents who were computer programmers - was in the right place at the right time. He grew up believing computers could do more than just store data, and in 1989 he came up with a way for computers around the world to share information. His efforts developed into what most of us use on a daily basis - the World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee now directs the World Wide Web Consortium, a group that continues to ensure the Web remains free and accessible to everyone, everywhere. He is also working to bring the Web to its full potential. "The Web," he says, "is far from `done.' "
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Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has been hailed by Time magazine as one of the 100 greatest minds of this century. His creation has already changed the way people do business, entertain themselves, exchange ideas, and socialize with one another. With new online businesses and communities forming every day, the full impact of Berners-Lee's grand scheme has yet to be fully known.Berners-Lee's creation was fueled by a highly personal vision of the Web as a powerful force for social change and individual creativity. He has never profited personally from the Web but has devoted himself to its continued growth and health. Now, this low-profile genius tells his own story of the Web's origins-from its revolutionary introduction and the creation of the now ubiquitous WWW and HTTP acronyms to how he sees the future development of this revolutionary medium. Today, Berners-Lee continues to facilitate the Web's growth and development as director of the World Wide Web Consortium and from his position at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science.Berners-Lee offers insights to help readers understand the true nature of the Web, enabling them to use it to their fullest advantage. He shares his views on such critical issues as censorship, privacy, the increasing power of software companies in the online world, and the need to find the ideal balance between the commercial and social forces on the Web. His incisive criticism of the Web's current state makes clear that there is still much work to be done. Finally, Berners-Lee presents his own plan for the Web's future, one that calls for the active support and participation of programmers, computer manufacturers, and social organizations to make it happen.His vision of the Web is something much more than a tool for research or communication; it is a new way of thinking and a means to greater freedom and social growth than ever before possible.
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"The Google Story" is the definitive account of one of the most remarkable organizations of our time. Every day over sixty-four million people use Google in more than one hundred languages, running billions of searches for information on everything and anything. Through the creative use of cutting-edge technology and a series of groundbreaking business ideas, Google's thirty-five year old founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, have in ten years taken Google from being just another internet start-up to a company with a market value of over US$80 billion. Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to the inner workings of Google, this book takes you inside the creation and growth of a company that has become so familiar its name is used as a verb around the world. But even as it rides high, Google wrestles with difficult challenges in a business that changes at lightning speed. In this new and updated edition to celebrate Google's 10th birthday, David A. Vise has written a new preface and new final chapter which look at further developments since 2005 and how Google will continue to expand and innovate while trying to follow its founders' mantra: Do No Evil. 'If you want to know how the Google boys became wealthy and powerful beyond dreams, then David Vise's assiduously researched "The Google Story" is for you' - "Sunday Telegraph". 'If Google were to take on critical faculties as well as its other attributes Vise's book would probably come out on top' - "The Times".
The Invention o the World Wide Web
What was the nationality of the inventor of the World Wide Web?
I already know the answer but I am interested in this that people generally think.
It is Tim Berners-Lee? If so, he was born in London.
Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry that was originally characterized by interactivity on a website and what is more than words on a page. No exact definition, but is mainly caused by an attempt to understand the rules for success of the Internet as a platform.
Web 2.0 has meant different things over the years depending on the point of discussion. According to O'Reilly, the term "2.0" refers to the coming of the web business after its collapse in 2001, and later distinguished achievement. However, the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, has questioned whether the term can be used in a meaningful way since many of the technological components of Web 2.0 have existed since the earliest days of the web.
Since we can not fully understand exactly what Web 2.0 is, so let's define what makes a site a Web 2.0 site. It is somehow seen as the second coming the World Wide Web and is said to be the improved version of the sites that make the web their platform. It offers its users a way to interact with others and organize your content. Web 2.0 is more than information retrieval because it also includes the SLATES acronym used by Andrew McAfee:
Search – ease search for information through keyword search that makes the platform valuable.
Links – Important Guide pieces of information. The best websites related to the most frequently.
Author – the ability to create the constant updating content through a platform that moves from being the creation of a few to be constantly updating, work together. In wikis, the content is iterative in the sense that the people of undo and redo each other's work. On blogs, the content is cumulative to the messages and comments from people accumulate over time.
Tags – content categorization by creating tags that are simple, one word description to facilitate search and avoid rigidity, pre-made categories.
Extensions – the automation of some of the work and pattern matching by use of algorithms, eg amazon.com recommendations.
Signs – use RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds to notify users content changes by sending e-mails to them.
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