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Any web application is a cloud application in the sense that it resides in the cloud. Google, Amazon, Facebook, twitter, flickr, and virtually every other Web 2.0 application is a cloud application in this sense.

As the Web passes through its first decade of widespread use, we still know surprisingly little about these complex technical and social mechanisms. We have only scratched the surface of what could be realized with deeper scientific investigation into its design, operation and impact on society. Robust technical design, innovative business decisions, and sound public policy judgment all require that we are aware of the complex interactions between technology and society. We call this awareness Web Science: the science and engineering of this massive system for the common good.[10] In order to galvanize Web Science research and education efforts, MIT and the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom have created the Web Science Research Initiative.

On one side is the Static Web of sites that we architect and build

On the other is the Live Web of pages that we write or author and publish and syndicate, and which can be browsed or subscribed to.

Veröffentlichung einer aktuellen, von hochkarätigen Experten unter Führung des Berkman Centers der Harvard Universität verfassten Studie

Die Antworten der Studie schmecken weder manchen der Auftraggeber, noch dem nach Sensationen lüsternden Teil der Presse: In Wahrheit, konstatiert das 278-Seiten-Papier, sei das Problem gar nicht so groß wie immer wieder behauptet wird. Es werde auch in den Medien aufgeblasen.

Beteiligt an der Erarbeitung durch die nur zu diesem Zweck gegründete "Internet Safety Technical Task Force" waren neben Thinktanks, Akademischen Instituten und Industrievertretern auch Jugendschutzorganisationen wie das National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.

Plattformen wie Eons, Rezoom, Multiply, Boomj und TeeBeeDee verfolgen ähnliche Konzepte wie MySpace und Facebook, nur eben für ältere Menschen.

The campaigns related to the establishment of protocols that run on the Internet were intense. The US government, for example, preferred another protocol but TCP/IP was non-proprietary and public domain and thus spread anarchically like a wild fire across small networks and in the end it would have been to expensive to switch to another standard.

"The Victorian Internet"

Vannevar Bush outlined the idea of hyperlinked pages and the “Memex

Es besteht das Bedürfnis von Seiten der Jugendlichen, sich mit Eltern und Lehrern über die Möglichkeiten und Problem des Internet auszutauschen, doch v.a. in der Schule werden diese Themen so gut wie nie angesprochen.

Constraints create the “field” in which a style can emerge upon a practice.  The name I’ve given to the posting style I favor is mindcasting.

“I could work on the concept of a Twitter feed as an editorial product of my own.”

that product is itself a distillation of the huge stream of input he gets from the nearly 550 journalists, analysts and news outlets he follows on Twitter. “I’ve hand-built my own tipster network,” he said. “It’s editing the Web for me in real time.”

FriendFeed is not a lifestream aggregator anymore (at least to me and hundreds of others), it is the perfect platform for sharing and discussing content with groups focused on a specific topic. It is Forums 2.0, if you will and it is precisely what the social web, even with gods like Facebook, Digg, YouTube, and Flickr, are severely lacking

If Facebook has one standout application it has to be Photos. Measured on its own, it is the largest photo site on the Web. A full 69 percent of Facebook’s monthly visitors worldwide either look at or upload photos, based on comScore data. And more than 10 billion photos have been uploaded to the site.