MIH SWAT

Coming back from a week in India, I was left with a few lasting impressions, which could be summed up in one word: ubiquity. Of people. Of noise. The organised chaos that is Delhi traffic. And energy – something that seems to have reached a frenetic level quite shocking to a laid-back Capetonian. This energy translated into some excited and stimulating debate in the classroom, which is where I found myself with 50 other Naspers employees at 8am sharp on the first Monday of 2010. For three days, we discussed mostly Internet and technology cases under the guidance of two HBS strategy professors, Bharat Anand and Felix Oberholzer-Gee. (more…)

Web services are key elements in the fields of distributed software engineering and code reuse. They also play a very important role on the Semantic Web by providing data to semantic software agents, as described by Tim Berners-Lee:

“The real power of the Semantic Web will be realized when people create many programs that collect Web content from diverse sources, process the information and exchange the results with other programs. The effectiveness of such software agents will increase exponentially as more machine-readable Web content and automated services become available. The Semantic Web promotes this synergy: even agents that were not expressly designed to work together can transfer data among themselves when the data come with semantics.”

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January brings with it the usual proliferation of lists predicting technology trends for 2010. I’ll add to the swarm by providing a short list of events which I believe will have a significant impact on the Web As We Know It in the coming year. (more…)