3. James Broad
• Yahoo! is my home?
• Web Developer
• Finance.yahoo.com is what I work on
• Carbonsilk.com – my blog
4. How lucky are we?
• Technological advances
– Satellite NavigaJon
– Mobile Phones
• Finding a new home
• Share photos with family on other side of the
world – instantly
• The Internet and its open standards…
9. The web back then was…
• Mostly ‘read only’
• In 1996 there were ~45 million global users
• Focused on company websites
• Homepages
• Portals
• Basic web forms
• Netscape & IE
11. My, the advances!
• JavaScript
• PHP, ASP, JSP, Django
• XML, RSS, JSON
• Web Services
• CommuniJes
• Tagging & Meta data
• Web applicaJons
• The web of today
19. The future of the web
• 3 billion users?
• Focused on the user
• SemanJc InformaJon
• Device independent
• Many more devices connected to the web
• Cloud compuJng
• More sensors to the web