About 25 years ago, the Internet was an merely network of large computers used only by a small community of researchers. At the time, the majority of computers were found in corporate information technology (IT) departments,  R&D labs, and hardly anyone imagined that the Internet would play such an important role in our daily life as it does today. Today, the Internet is the center of attention for businesses, governments and individuals around the world. Internet is a powerful technology.

In the period ahead, the Internet will have an even more effect on the way we work, live & learn.

Social Networking (Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin…) – you know the way the 21st century communicates today.

The Internet brings people closer together. Before the Internet, it was not possible to keep in touch with relatives and friends across globe, so easily, economically, speedly. Internet makes no difference whether you are in India or UK. The Internet makes the world simpler. The Internet has really revolutionized the way we live and work.

- Manoj Jain

With domain names in Hindi, Arabic and Chinese set to become a reality on the Web, the pundits in this science hub of Switzerland, where the 
internet was arguably invented, claim the next giant leap towards internationalisation will be the grid, which is just weeks away from powering up.

The grid, which is made of thousands of desktops, laptops, supercomputers, data vaults, mobile phones, meteorological sensors and telescopes will start work when protons beams collide with each other in the worlds biggest experiment ever inside a deep tunnel here on the French-Swiss border.

It is a revolution, say scientists of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) because it uses the internet but is not the internet. Using cloud computing, the grid will combine the computing resources of more than 100,000 processors from more than 170 sites in 34 countries and will be accessible to thousands of physicists globally.

The scientists claim it will change the way the information superhighway works. Small computer grids similar to power grids have been in operation for some time, but CERN’s will be the biggest one of them all and will become a reality when its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) becomes operational this month.

The Grid will not only enable sharing of documents and MP3 files, but also connect PCs with sensors, telescopes and tidal-wave simulators.

The Grid evolved from the early desire to connect supercomputers into “metacomputers” that could be remotely controlled. The word “grid” was borrowed from the electricity grid, to imply that any compatible device could be plugged in anywhere on the Grid and be guaranteed a certain level of resources, regardless of where those resources might come from.

The Grid may give birth to a global file-swapping network or a members-only citadel for moneyed institutions. But just as no one ten years ago would have conceived of Napster — not to mention AmIHotOrNot.com — the future of the Grid is unknown.

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Twitter has become one of the strongest medium for people to cover what they intend to say. There is a huge requirement to have a significant presence at the various online mediums in the present times. There are a few things which are more popular than others. However the stuff which has left everybody ablaze is the immense popularity of twitter.

Why is it so that the most popular celebrities and the politicians etc are out there expressing their feelings and anticipations on the social networking medium that is beyond all bounds? It is taken the world by fire and everyone is influenced by it. We often believe that there needs to be a medium through which even the persons at the remotest location have a vocal presence. Twitter is the one which has done this in a great manner. And when this medium is so strong then why does not marketing be done through it. Well the crux of the matter is that tweets which create a buzz all away, has something great which they can do to marketing, And that is take it to new levels.

According to the Twitter FAQ, “Twitter is for staying in touch and keeping up with friends no matter where you are or what you’re doing.

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Twitter turns out to have unsuspected depth. In part this is because hearing about what your friends had for breakfast is actually more interesting than it sounds.

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Intelligent Web

Web 2.0 is about social networking and mass collaboration with the blurring of lines between content creator and user whereas Web 3.0 is based on “intelligent” web applications using:

• Natural language processing
• Machine-based learning and reasoning
• Intelligent applications

The goal is to tailor online searching and requests specifically to users’ preferences and needs. Although the intelligent web sounds similar to artificial intelligence, it’s not quite the same.

Openness

Web 3.0 is about openness. By “opening” application programming interfaces (APIs), protocols, data formats, open-source software platforms and open data, you open up possibilities for creating new tools. Although Unlike openness can result in identity theft, Web 3.0 attempts to remedy this through:

A new study reveals that increasing numbers of social network users check their Facebook and Twitter accounts in the middle of the night when they can’t sleep. Some social networkers even revealed that they would look at messages while having sex.The study, conducted on March 16 by consumer electronics site Retrevo, found that 30 percent of Twitter and Facebook users would check their accounts any time they woke up during the night.

Forty-seven percent of people in the study said they check their social network sometimes during the night. Fifty-three percent raced to look at what had happened on their social network as soon as they woke up.

People under the age of 25 were more likely to lose sleep keeping an eye on their friends’ posts during the night.

iPhone users and the under 25s were also much more likely to check their social networks in the morning to find out what was happening in the world, said the study.

When it came to using social networks during the day, more than 40 percent of respondents said they didn’t mind being interrupted by a message from their social network.

Seven percent even said they would read a message during sex.

A September 2009 study conducted by Crowd Science on people’s social networking habits showed that Twitter and Facebook users were so integrated with their online social networks that many of them checked their accounts when they were in the toilet, while driving a car or even during a religious service.

Retrevo’s Gadgetology Report was based on the responses of more than 1000 people located in the US.

Source / courtesy- Hindustan Times

The host name or the name which can identify one computer on the internet from the other is called the domain name of that computer or computers. The domain names which are registered with the registrar are called as registered ones. These domain names are the property of the business which has registered these names. Some of the domain names are considered to be of the top level. These domain names include.com and .edu. These names are considered to be better domain names than others. Domain names are important to the success of a website.

You can promote your website instead of someone else’s when you’re sending emails as your domain name will be in the email address, for example admin@akamarketing.com is helping to promote akamarketing.com while akamarketing@aol.com is helping to promote and brand AOL.com

Your likely to have more traffic to your website with your own domain name because more people will be returning as they can remember your address and because many search directories such as Yahoo only index websites with their own domain name. When it comes to branding on the internet, the single most important thing is your domain name.

Another advantage of having your own domain name is that you can use custom error pages to prevent people from leaving your site because of broken links and other errors.

A domain name adds credibility to your small business. Having your own domain name makes your company look professional. If you publish your site through an ISP or a free Web hosting site, you’ll end up with a URL such as www.yourisp.com/-yourbusiness.DomainsRegistration.name: Register / Renew / Transfer Domain names.

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With domain names in Hindi, Arabic and Chinese set to become a reality on the Web, the pundits in this science hub of Switzerland, where the 
internet was arguably invented, claim the next giant leap towards internationalisation will be the grid, which is just weeks away from powering up.

The grid, which is made of thousands of desktops, laptops, supercomputers, data vaults, mobile phones, meteorological sensors and telescopes will start work when protons beams collide with each other in the worlds biggest experiment ever inside a deep tunnel here on the French-Swiss border.

It is a revolution, say scientists of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) because it uses the internet but is not the internet. Using cloud computing, the grid will combine the computing resources of more than 100,000 processors from more than 170 sites in 34 countries and will be accessible to thousands of physicists globally.

The scientists claim it will change the way the information superhighway works. Small computer grids similar to power grids have been in operation for some time, but CERN’s will be the biggest one of them all and will become a reality when its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) becomes operational this month.

The Grid will not only enable sharing of documents and MP3 files, but also connect PCs with sensors, telescopes and tidal-wave simulators.

The Grid evolved from the early desire to connect supercomputers into “metacomputers” that could be remotely controlled. The word “grid” was borrowed from the electricity grid, to imply that any compatible device could be plugged in anywhere on the Grid and be guaranteed a certain level of resources, regardless of where those resources might come from.

The Grid may give birth to a global file-swapping network or a members-only citadel for moneyed institutions. But just as no one ten years ago would have conceived of Napster — not to mention AmIHotOrNot.com — the future of the Grid is unknown.

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In the name of cultural and linguistic diversity, our loyal comrades over at the ICANN are about to approve availability of domain names in non-Latin alphabets. That’s right, Chinese and Japanese folks will finally be able to address their websites in their native tongue, as will fans of Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek or Hindi scripts. Basically, linguists of every type are finally invited to the interwebs party, a move described by ICANN chairman Peter Thrush as “the biggest change technically to the internet since it was invented.” This follows an extensive two-year testing period for a translation engine that can convert your lazy Latin scribblings into the refined hieroglyphics of modern Cantonese. Pending approval this Friday, the first new domain names will start coming out in 2010, when we can expect a whole new wave of internet land grabbing.