RakutenSpeech0301

The Future of the Internet

Topics

• Services and XML

• Social Software

• Mobile Devices

• Presence

Social Software

• Weblogs/Blogs - Microcontent

• Web Service integration

• MetaWeblog API / ATOM

• Wikis

• IM / IRC

• Six Degrees type social networking tools / FOAF

Web Services / XML

• RSS / Syndication

• Link Pingers

• Real Time Search

• MetaWeblog API / ATOM

Mobile Devices

• End-to-End / Stupid Network

• Presence

• Telco Internet convergence

• Voice / VoIP

• IM / SMS

• [Proposed addition: ENUM? Perhaps, one day... But if it eventually works, it will have a significant impcat not only at the infraestructure level, but also here and in Presence / IdentitY. Amadeu Abril]

Presence / Identity

• 3 levels of identity / privacy

• The buddy list

• Location based services

• One great example of location and mobile is AU's new GPS-enabled phones which really do allow for pinpoint accuracy in addresses in Tokyo. This coupled with an ecommerce database could come in handy for on-the-fly price/checking and shopping. (gen)

Honorable Joi-san

If I can be just so honorable as you-san, and make a couple of suggestions - as to the future of the Internet. This is especially relevant to one who is associated with the Portal Advisory Comm.

1. Portals will be built using XML. This 'lingua franca' will enable many disparate modules (message boards, emails, IM, news, etc.) - to integrate, aggregate and provide appropriate levels of customization - along with social networking, cell phone and PDA interfacing. Web services (which are now separate from portals) will merge seamlessly with portals - the MyBlah Blah Blah interface - which is how most humans interact with the web. Though these individual web servcies (such as Google, Amazon, eBay) will continue to flourish, the portal will take on a new importance - as long as it reads and writes XML. MyYahoo got it right, it's just needs to be in XML.

2. I assume you will talk about emerging standards for digital identity, such as Liberty Alliance and WS-*, but that you will ALSO plug the FOAF folks - who are developing an OPEN approach to digital identity standards. Hai! Gambatte kudasai!

- Marc Canter