Internet Evolution

Rwanda’s Internet Revolution

Video on Internet Evolution about
Rwanda’s Internet Revolution. This post takes no credit simply shares awareness. Here’s hoping the Internet increasingly helps to make a positive difference in the lives of everyone around the globe. Look forward to increasingly reading about the contributions of many to continually make the world a better place. Thanks in advance to all for all you do to be, create and increase inherent (intrinsic and pervasive) qualities around the globe.  

All the best in the New Year and the years of the future!

The Elegant Universe, LHC and Cyberinfrastructure

The Elegant Universe, LHC & Cyberinfrastructure…  what can you imagine before, by and beyond perfect vision leap year 2020?

On the continual journey from good to great, quality and value will increasingly become inherent.

Another step in the Internet’s evolution

Interesting piece on Internet Evolution by Mathew Ingram, technology writer for The Globe and Mail in Canada… The Internet Takes Another Step Into Outer Space. Perhaps this is another step in the Internet’s evolution. 2008 certainly has been an interesting year. Between now and perfect vision leap year 2020 the best is ideally yet to come.

Share or help mature ideas for making quality and value increasingly intrinsic and pervasive. Thank you for doing so.

The Cloud and beyond

Sharing awareness of a couple of Internet Evolution items:

i) blog post about cyberspace protection and Einstein 3.0

ii) an IBM video about what cloud computing is and why it is vital. 

Intrinsically and pervasively quality may evolve inherent to the Cloud and Cyberspace and in some interconnected way may help to increasingly evolve balance, harmony and what social responsibility can mean for humanity.

No. 1 destination for companies looking to outsource their green IT data centers

Thinking Green IT? Iceland it seems is; as Iceland apparently wants to become No. 1 for companies looking to outsource their green IT data centers. Enjoy a new Internet Evolution video.

What plans do you have to improve quality that inherently may help your organization, other organizations and the world in general?

Read this fun look at a serious topic (network availability)

Looking for an enjoyable, funny, colorful post to read? Try this one! Although the topic is based on something fairly serious (Internet down!!!), it is an enjoyable read simply because of the fun way in which it is written (nice job Nicole!). Also enjoyed was a particular comment which referred to this fun site, It’s A Wonderful Internet (nice research find Asad!). Perhaps some readers of VIIP remember this post which is about a movie with a similar title. Perhaps some remember this post which contains serious numbers in terms of what a single hour of outage means to particular industries (millions per hour!!!).

Has your organization had a network outage recently?

If so feel free to share how long you were down, whether you and others accomplished objectives for the day regardless, and whether you or someone somehow tried to make a positive difference in the day for others regardless. Ideally some good came to the day. Ideally appropriate thanks was plentiful for the inherent quality brought to the day, or the risk management practiced, which allowed objectives to be accomplished regardless of the network unavailability.

Making the move to IPv6 before 2010

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts we will have run out of IP addresses by early 2011. (story here) … perhaps this isn’t a news flash for most, however perhaps the title of this post on Internet Evolution makes sense and more will be making the move to IPv6 in the near future: Forward March to IPv6 by 2010

As a somewhat interesting aside, “The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet’s addresses recently lost track of its own” (story here).

Embedding to increase accuracy (Socialcalc)

Let’s say you want to increase accuracy. Well a technology developed by a guy associated with the open source movement may help you to do so (e.g., by 80%). Cutting down on passing files around, maintaining a means of sharing, maintaining version control and a single reference point for data, Socialcalc enables users to embed spreadsheets into Socialtext’s wiki pages. In an interview on the future the CEO of Socialtext basically shares that doing a project collaboratively actually dramatically increases productivity and reduces email traffic. A few words from the related article on Internet Evolution that may get you thinking include: “When you look at social networking, if it’s done with a goal of actually solving a problem, then it’s less about who knows who and more about who knows what and who knows who knows what.”; “encourage customers to not categorize things by marketing buzzwords but categorize them by their goals and problems they’re trying to solve”; “help groups be more productive in the context of what they have”; “the patterns of ubiquity of technology, the long tail of specificity, those will continue to accelerate”; “the next wave is, how do you make it relevant”. (full story here)

All must increasingly work towards means to innately improve quality and value, and thereby in the process increase such things as integration, productivity, excellence and simplicity. By 2020 this will ideally increasingly apply to all aspects of IT Governance, a global IT profession, and improvements to quality of life for all.

Search chief officers and IT Pros, for what out of the box can really mean

Linda Tucci, Senior News Writer, recently wrote on SearchCIO.com that the “future of business is information technology”, she also wrote that it was fun to hear Susan Cramm, the former CIO of Taco Bell turned “leadership coach,” tell a ballroomful of CIOs that “at successful companies of the future — 2015, in her imagined scenario — IT will not be treated by CEOs as an expense to be minimized, but as an asset to be optimized.” (full article here) 

If risk exposure is often embedded in corporate values, and if the future of business is IT, should IT somehow be explicitly stated within your corporate values? Is it? Ideally so; and ideally your organization is making use of IT to replace inherent risks with something innately better.

If your organization produces or would like to utilize an OOTB type product, you may be interested in reading What ‘Out-of-the-Box’ Really Means (ideally you’re also interested in continual improvement and forward progress that increasingly strives to improve the quality and value within). 

Search chief officers and IT Pros, for what out of the box can really mean before, by and beyond 2020 if IT is treated like an asset to be optimized and if the quality and value associated within is increasingly improved.

Yahoo! - Google Announcement

Will Yahoo! and Google increasingly work together? Would interesting developments in software quality inherently evolve as a result? Here is the announcement in case you somehow missed it. And here is a related piece on InternetEvolution.Com.

An Internet that makes a real difference to people’s lives, everyday

The indented quote is from this video. One idea noted in the video that may help to make an Internet that is increasingly valuable is minimally invasive education.

I’m looking for the latest Internet… I’m looking for an Internet that makes a real difference to people’s lives, everyday— Stephen Saunders

If you have an example of Internet usage that is helping to make a real positive difference to people’s lives everyday feel free to share awareness with a comment and related link. Thank you for doing so.

Search engine partnering, upstarts, mergers and advances

Would it be good if Google and Yahoo partnered more? How about if they merged? Will upstarts somehow be further catalysts that help to drive innovative leaps beyond semantic, multimedia and other challenges? As a result of search engine partnering, upstarts, mergers and advances, how will surfing the web evolve by (and what will it look and feel like by) 2020?    

Free, high-quality, to every person, in their language

Digital evangelist, Jimmy Wales expressed a very nice goal (The goal of Wikipedia is to give a free, high-quality encyclopedia to every single person on the planet in their own language) and it was refreshing to read that he hopes and thinks the online community will eventually serve a greater purpose and that he thinks “we’re going to get more community activism that’s empowered by innovative tools that are coming up online”. Thanks for sharing Nicole and Jimmy.

Thanks also to SJC for commenting on recent VIIP post: The career, Software Developer; and for writing a related post on his blog.

Semantic Web: unleashing the killer app

Interesting post about the Semantic Web over at Readwriteweb.com. For a blog post and comments that link in nicely (e.g., with respect to the potential need for an improved search engine) see Multimedia Content: The Semantic Web Challenge.

Is PCI compliance enough? Is non-compliance illegal?

Some interesting reading at Hack-igations. For a related post and comment also see FTC: Failing the Consumer. Is PCI compliance enough? Is non-compliance illegal?

As a society we need to focus on beating the criminals, and stop flogging victims like TJX as unfair privacy infringers. — Benjamin Wright