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The new age of the web has arrived. And it will not go unnoticed. Web 2.0 is radically changing the way that enterprises, managers, and professionals are using the internet for their own businesses, and the new challenges are universal and important. Here are ten tips to prepare everyone for the new era of the net.

Web 2.0 (otherwise known as the Internet 2.0), is neither specific software nor a registered brand, but instead stands for the web applications that facilitate interactive information sharing, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web. The term is normally associated with Dale Dougherty, vice-president of O’Reilly Media; it became official during the O’Reilly Media Web 2.0 Conference in 2004. The term itself refers to an attitude towards the sharing of information, and the cumulative changes of web usage. This revolutionary approach is based on the Web as a sort of platform. The problem that remains is the fact that neither Dale Dougherty nor Tim O’Reilly (the President of O’Reilly Media) has formulated a specific definition of Web 2.0. Web 2.0 represents the evolution of the World Wide Web, from a series of static sites to a global environment in which online software, multimedia applications, and large band connection offer a wider array of information and a tighter interaction between the users. In this scenario, the absence of a single definition has contributed to an international debate (which still exists) about the term Web 2.0. From the analyses of the statements ranging from Tim O’Reilly to Wikipedia and various posts, I believe that the characteristics of Web 2.0 can be summarized in the following ten tips to better understand the Web 2.0:

1. The Web is a platform. We have gone from installable software on our PC, to software-services that are accessible online. All data and software is now available online.
2. The Web is functionality. The Web aids in the transfer of information and services from websites.
3. The Web is simple. It facilitates the access and usage of web services using user-friendly interfaces.
4. The Web is light. The models of development, the processes, and the models of business become light. The lightness is associated with the ability to share of information and services with ease, and made possible through the implementation of intuitive modular elements.
5. The Web is social. People create the Web, “populate the Web”, by socializing and gradually moving members from the physical world to the online world.
6. The Web is flow. The users are seen as co-developers, while Web 2.0 remains in “perpetual beta”, where it remains at the beta development stage for an indefinite period of time.
7. The Web is flexible. The software is on a more advanced level because it enables access to previously unavailable digital content. This idea is similar to the Long Tail concept, which focuses on the less popular content that couldn’t previously be accessed.
8. The Web is mixable. The expansion of codes in order to modify web applications (like Google does with its Google Maps application) allows individuals who are not necessarily computer professionals to mix different applications in order to create new ones. Web 2.0 gets its power through this “mashup” capability.
9. The Web is participatory. Web 2.0 has adopted a structure of participation that encourages users to enhance the application while they use it, instead of keeping it rigid and controlled.
10. The Web is in our hands. Its increased organization and characterization of information emphasizes its user-friendly interaction through deep linking. Thanks to phenomena such as social tagging, information is always more and more easily available.

Companies and corporations will soon be changing their business models in the coming years, no longer focusing on size and expansion, but rather on speed.

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The new standard for future corporations will be speed. These companies, these corporations, have until now focused on size, expansion, getting bigger and bigger and even bigger still. The goal has always been to be bigger than your competitor; however, with the global economy in decline, these companies can’t keep relying on this old strategy. The new strategy, the model, will no longer be that of expansion, but rather that of speed: doing things faster, as quickly as they can be accomplished.

The “D-Generation”, the digital generation, was the first generation of young people to be exposed to the digital tools, such as instant messaging programs, social networks, P2P servers. These technologies have become common to us all. Now that this generation is old enough to take managerial positions in companies, they take all of this experience and utilize it at work. They know what the next generation wants from service providers. They also know that nothing is ever fast enough for the generation of children today. And so, things must change. In order to stimulate the economy, the new direction will be towards speed. Nanotechnology will play roles we never dreamed of.

So take a look around. Do you see all those large corporations, those large enterprises being bought out on a daily basis? They were moving too slow. Things are starting to speed up in the business world, and all of us must be ready to jump on the bandwagon. We’re sure to see things we never dreamed of. As we move forward and the children of today replace the children of yesterday in the design, engineering, and managerial fields, we can only get better—faster.

Are you ready for life in the fast lane?

The world of marketing and advertising will soon be at our fingertips, with a new Super Barcode called QR, made in Japan by Denso Wave. With these barcodes, people will be able to send messages, and obtain all sorts of information right from a cellular phone.

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QR, which stands for Quick Response, is the new Super Barcode. Developed by the Japanese research lab, Denso Wave, these small barcodes are capable of containing a lot of information in a tiny space. On chopsticks, in magazines, inside buses, on billboards, they are already everywhere. We will be able to read these barcodes using a simple software program that we can download onto our cell phones, enabling us to take a picture of the barcode and decipher what it says.

Well, that software is now available. You can download it with some of today’s smartphones and begin to read these types of barcodes. In Japan kids use them to send messages to each other, in Germany the young people post them everywhere to play games, in the United States they can be used as an advertising and marketing tool. But nonetheless, you too can get a quick response on your phone.

Imagine the potential for these things! You see something in a store you like, but no price tag, just a barcode that you “scan” with your phone. And voila, all of the item information is available to you, right up to how many they have available in the store and in what color. You can even link things to websites using the barcodes. So in this way, a company can automatically link you to other items online that you may like, or marketers can use it to link clients and customers to websites that the customer could find interesting. The possibilities are endless—and always portable right on your cell phone.

So look out for these stickers next time you’re walking down the street. In Japan they’ve already been put on T-Shirts. So who knows, you too might have your own personalized T-Shirt and message in the near future. So download the software onto your phone too and get ready to get your “Quick Response” from the super barcode of tomorrow.

The Universal Exposition of 2015 (Expo 2015) will be held in Milan, Italy. Designers and innovators from around the world will come together to display their new products and technologies.

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Man is the true protagonist of Expo 2015. Most people are under the impression that the point of Expo 2015 is to show off all of the innovative and wonderful technology of tomorrow. Well, it is. But in reality, all of those innovations are to better improve our lives. If there are no improvements, if these innovations don’t change a thing, what is their purpose?

Working on the future of a city is a challenging experience. I have designed 25 solutions for the Expo that will make it a much more enjoyable and relaxing experience for the visitors. Solutions such as automatic RFID identification will allow for automatic identification and access to permitted areas and reduced waiting times. Biometric scanners will be used to ensure that only the authorized personnel are allowed in restricted areas. And visitors will be able to connect to the Expo online to better manage their time and visit. These are just some of the many ideas and solutions that I have created to enhance the visitor’s experience at Expo 2015.

The purpose of the Expo is not only to show where technology and where the world is going, but also to show where technology is, how far it’s come. The Expo will be a place to show the visitors all of the services available to them. The enhanced security and more personalized service that is available through many forms of media and technology. Visitors will feel more at ease and more at home than ever before, while at the same time they will be able to admire countries, cultures, and people from around the world all from the city of Milan.

The Expo will illustrate all the advances man has made to live a better life. It will put on display the great strides we’ve taken, and where we are headed in the years to come. At the Expo, we will feel more connected than ever before thanks to all of the resources that will be available to us as visitors. Because after all, we are guests of honor.

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• http://www.milanoexpo-2015.com/indexe.htm

The Universal Exposition of 2015 will change the city of Milan, as well as Italy as whole. Expo 2015 brings with it great potential for both Italy and the future.

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“In 2015, Milan will transform into a magical city,” This is how I explained the 2015 Universal Exposition on the program Nea Polis on the Italian TV network Rai 3. Milan is a magical city full of new technology that will soon become a reference of innovation and design.

Many Expos in the past have left large changes for the host city. Brussels was given the Atomium, and France was left with the Eiffel Tower. This iron monument was completely innovative for its time. It was avant-garde, unexpected, and even unappreciated by some. It now stands as a monument of innovation and art. This Expo in 2015 will stand in history as the point in which Italy redefines itself as not only a nation of ancient art and ancient civilizations; it will show that it is a nation that is headed for the future and that it has what it takes to be one of the front runners, one of the very best in the fields of engineering, innovation, and design.

When I was planning the project for the Italian candidacy for Expo 2015, I designed innovations such as sidewalks with built in sensors to adapt to you and your feet as you walk, buildings painted with nanotechnology infused paint that changes color as the day progresses, and sunglasses which allow you view the city as it was centuries and millennia ago. At the Expo, we will be marveled by technologies and innovations that seem as unreal as these ideas. But that’s how we move forward, by taking ideas and figuring out how to make them reality. But when people ask me which solutions, out of the 25 that I designed, I treasure the most, my response is the first holographic park in the world that will be capable of displaying buildings and monuments up to 30 meters (about 98 feet) high. It will show the things that made Milan the city it is, the people that helped found it, but it will appear out of thin air, and can be shut off like a light switch.

An exposition that demonstrates where the world is going. That is how the 2015 Expo in Milan is being referred to. We’ll refer to that date to come up with new innovative solutions. We have a lot to look forward to and much to watch out for at the 2015 Expo that is only 5 years away. Milan will most definitely be magical with all of the wonderful and never-before-seen technology at the Expo. There will not be any card ticks or rabbits being pulled out of hats; the magic is in the innovation it took to bring all of those ideas to life.

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• http://www.milanoexpo-2015.com/indexe.htm

Here is my first post, it is called “indestructible materials”, and it is one of the episodes from the series “Live from the Future”, now showing on the Discovery Channel. Many people have asked me if they could find this or other episodes online, and the response was “no, sorry”. Well now the response has changed and now it is “Yes. Now you can find it here on this blog.”

We can all become superheroes with new materials discovered through science; introducing D3O, a material which will allow us to become indestructible.

Every generation has its superheroes. For me it was Batman, the Rocket Red Brigade, and Superman (but to my father he was still known as Nembo Kid). For my younger friends it was the generation of Marvel Comics, from Spiderman to the Fantastic Four and the Incredible Hulk. For my children it was Sharkboy and Lavagirl. What do these different generations of heroes all have in common? Superpowers. And, obviously, they all fight evil. The superheroes are the contemporary versions of God and demigods; or of the angels, if you prefer a period more recent and a more Christian version.

The superheroes are the mirrors in which one reflects on the larger side of one’s self, that which strives to vanquish the evil that one encounters. And in order to do so, we must be equipped with what we do not have: superpowers. In this truth lies the key difference between ourselves and superheroes. If we were able, we too would truly eliminate the bad. Unfortunately, we do not have these powers, so we can forgive ourselves for this small display of cowardice…Within the superheroes lies the fascination of this dream and our conscience’s alibi.

Times have been hard for maintaining our excuses and alibis because science has progressed exceptionally in this time period, and the amount of our discoveries in the past ten years of this new millennium equates to the number of all of the discoveries made in the last thousands years of history. One of the most important fields of discovery is material science, which has begun to mix the properties of computer chips with that of telecommunications, and mixed with nanotechnology. The result is extraordinary. Computer chips have brought about the ability to consider, to work out information, and to summarize. Today’s telecommunications capabilities allow us access and communication 24 hours a day and without any burdensome lines. Nanotechnologies have the ability to miniaturize everything and mix, weave, and tie together all of the other existing materials.

The result? Superpowers.

Take invisibility for example. Invisibility has been studied at the University of California in Berkeley by a team of scientists at the “Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center” run by Professor Xiang Zhang. For the first time in history, a 3D material has been created that inverts the natural direction of visible light; by using close infrared waves, it has the ability to turn objects invisible to the human eye. Or take for example indestructibility, which will soon become a reality thanks to the engineer Richard Palmer from Brighton in the United Kingdom. He has created D3O, a material that, on impact, can change its molecular structure and become indestructible for split second. This crucial hundredth of a second allows the material to sustain the entire traumatic blow, thus saving the person for which the blow was intended. The following video will help explain D3O and its powers of indestructibility.

More Info.:

• http://www.d3olab.com/