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100 ideas that changed the web
This innovative title looks at the history of the Web from its early roots in the research projects of the US government to the interactive online world we know and use today. Fully illustrated with images of early computing equipment and the inside story of the online world's movers and shakers, the book explains the origins of the Web's key technologies, such as hypertext and mark-up language, the social ideas that underlie its networks, such as open source, and creative commons, and key moments in its development, such as the movement to broadband and the Dotcom Crash. Later ideas look at the origins of social networking and the latest developments on the Web, such as The Cloud and the Semantic Web. Following the design of the previous titles in the series, this book will be in a new, smaller format. It provides an informed and fascinating illustrated history of our most used and fastest-developing technology.
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Cataloging the world : Paul Otlet and the birth of the information age
In 1934, Paul Otlet, a Belgian entrepreneur, designed a proto-Internet which he called a réseau mondial-- literally, \"worldwide web.\" Today, Otlet and his vision have been all but forgotten, thanks to a series of historical misfortunes -- not least of which involved the Nazis marching into Brussels and destroying most of his life's work -- but Alex Wright brings Otlet's extraordinary story back into the light in this fascinating look at the dream of universal knowledge.
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The Web was done by amateurs : a reflection on one of the largest collective systems ever engineered
\"This book stems from the desire to systematize and put down on paper essential historical facts about the Web, a system that has undoubtedly changed our lives in just a few decades. But how did it manage to become such a central pillar of modern society, such an indispensable component of our economic and social interactions? How did it evolve from its roots to today? Which competitors, if any, did it have to beat out? Who are the heroes behind its success? /These are the sort of questions that the book addresses. Divided into four parts, it follows and critically reflects on the Web's historical path. \"Part I: The Origins\" covers the prehistory of the Web. It examines the technology that predated the Web and fostered its birth. In turn, \"Part II: The Web\" describes the original Web proposal as defined in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee and the most relevant technologies associated with it. \"Part III: The Patches\" combines a historical reconstruction of the Web's evolution with a more critical analysis of its original definition and the necessary changes made to the initial design. In closing, \"Part IV: System Engineering\" approaches the Web as an engineered infrastructure and reflects on its technical and societal success. The book is unique in its approach, combining historical facts with the technological evolution of the Web. It was written with a technologically engaged and knowledge-thirsty readership in mind, ranging from curious daily Web users to undergraduate computer science and engineering students.\"--Back cover.
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The Success of Open Source
Much of the innovative programming that powers the Internet,
creates operating systems, and produces software is the result of
\"open source\" code, that is, code that is freely distributed-as
opposed to being kept secret-by those who write it. Leaving source
code open has generated some of the most sophisticated developments
in computer technology, including, most notably, Linux and Apache,
which pose a significant challenge to Microsoft in the marketplace.
As Steven Weber discusses, open source's success
in a highly competitive industry has subverted many assumptions
about how businesses are run, and how intellectual products are
created and protected. Traditionally, intellectual property law has
allowed companies to control knowledge and has guarded the rights
of the innovator, at the expense of industry-wide cooperation. In
turn, engineers of new software code are richly rewarded; but, as
Weber shows, in spite of the conventional wisdom that innovation is
driven by the promise of individual and corporate wealth, ensuring
the free distribution of code among computer programmers can
empower a more effective process for building intellectual
products. In the case of Open Source, independent
programmers-sometimes hundreds or thousands of them-make unpaid
contributions to software that develops organically, through trial
and error. Weber argues that the success of open source is not a
freakish exception to economic principles. The open source
community is guided by standards, rules, decisionmaking procedures,
and sanctioning mechanisms. Weber explains the political and
economic dynamics of this mysterious but important market
development.
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The archived web : doing history in the digital age
\"How will the history of the present be written? As life continues to move online, the web becomes ever more important for an understanding of the past. This book offers an original theoretical framework for approaching the web of the past, both as a source and as an object of study in its own right\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The culture of connectivity : a critical history of social media
This book studies the rise of social media in the first decade of the twenty-first century, up until 2012. It provides both a historical and a critical analysis of the emergence of networking services in the context of a changing ecosystem of connective media. Such history is needed to understand how the intricate constellation of platforms profoundly affects our experience of online sociality. In a short period of time, services like Facebook, YouTube and many others have come to deeply penetrate our daily habits of communication and creative production. While most sites started out as amateur-driven community platforms, half a decade later they have turned into large corporations that do not just facilitate user connectedness, but have become global information and data mining companies extracting and exploiting user connectivity. Offering a dual analytical prism to examine techno-cultural as well as socio-economic aspects of social media, the author dissects five major platforms: Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and Wikipedia. Each of these microsystems occupies a distinct position in the larger ecosystem of connective media, and yet, their underlying mechanisms for coding interfaces, steering users, filtering content, governance and business models rely on shared ideological principles. Reconstructing the premises on which these platforms are built, this study highlights how norms for online interaction and communication gradually changed. “Sharing,” “friending,” “liking,” “following,” “trending,” and “favoriting” have come to denote online practices imbued with specific technological and economic meanings. This process of normalization is part of a larger political and ideological battle over information control in an online world where everything is bound to become “social.”
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The Metaverse handbook
The metaverse is here. Are you ready?
In? The Metaverse Handbook: Innovating for the Internet's Next Tectonic Shift, a duo of experienced tech and culture experts delivers a can't-miss guide to participating in the most promising new technology since the advent of the web. Through dozens of metaverse creator case studies and concise, actionable insights, you'll walk away from this book understanding how to explore and implement the latest metaverse tech emerging from blockchain, XR, and web3.
In The Metaverse Handbook, you'll discover:
* What the metaverse is, why you should care about it, and how to build your metaverse strategy
* The history of the metaverse and primers on critical technologies driving the metaverse, including non-fungible tokens, XR, the blockchain, and web3
* How to unearth unique metaverse opportunities in digital communities, commerce, and immersive experiences
As the metaverse has rapidly become the technology platform and marketing buzzword of the future, this new reality for companies, creators, and consumers is not easily understood at the surface level. Those who aim to be at the forefront of this exciting new arena must first understand the foundations and central technologies of the metaverse.
An essential resource for digital professionals, creators, and business leaders in the vanguard of the coming technology revolution, ? The Metaverse Handbook ?provides the go-to roadmap for your journey into the metaverse.
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Tim Berners-Lee : inventor of the World Wide Web
A brief biography of the man who invented the World Wide Web.
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Unleashing Web 2.0 : from concepts to creativity
The emergence of Web 2.0 is provoking challenging questions for developers: What products and services can our company provide to customers and employees using Rich Internet Applications, mash-ups, Web feeds or Ajax? Which business models are appropriate and how do we implement them? What are best practices and how do we apply them? If you need answers to these and related questions, you need this book-a comprehensive and reliable resource that guides you into the emerging and unstructured landscape that is Web 2.0.Gottfried Vossen is a professor of Information Systems and Computer Science at the University of Muenster in Germany. He is the European Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier's Information Systems-An International Journal. Stephan Hagemann is a PhD. Student in Gottfried's research group focused on Web technologies. * Presents a complete view of Web 2.0 including services and technologies* Discusses potential new products and services and the technology and programming ability needed to realize them* Offers 'how to' basics presenting development frameworks and best practices* Compares and contrasts Web 2.0 with the Semantic Web
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