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Imagine year 2020.  How would you be using your web? Somewhere I read this analogy: "the cars of early days mimicked ancient manual vehicles. Similarly the web of today mimic the books / newspapers / magazines of yesteryears".. then really how the web would be as the time progresses? Fascinating....  During the past 2 ~3  years webosphere has seen exciting new ideas. Blogs reaching the unprecedented capacity in terms of quantity and inclusiveness.. No need to explicitly mention about "Micro blogging" services like twitter , Google Buzz etc... Phenomenal growth .... Lets chart-out few possible web advaaaaaancements...(In my opinion:) "Web of Things" would occupy a major area of webosphere in the future..  Think about IP enabled Washing Machines, IP enabled Microwave ovens, Refrigerators.. all routing semantic content among them...  You might even get a oven/cooker which would suggest the possible recipes that you can make based on the ...

Stop guessing. This is not a chemistry post. Read furthur to know what is C3H5. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) marks the boundary between your actual data and the presentation. This clear-cut separation between data and presentation would make the maintenance of an application smoother. The recent addition to the CSS family is CSS 3. It provides  whole lot of new capabilities to the Web UI engineer. In one of the previous posts (RIA Re-Defined), I highlighted about HTML 5. CSS 3 is a very good friend of HTML 5. This C3H5 (Thats the title!. Just like that thought of this acronym. So it is my innovation...LOL) would change the way that we approach the Web UI. Few of the capabilities of CSS 3 are : Dynamic Media Management: You can specify different CSS for different sized monitors with lot of ease. Multiple Backgrounds. Photoshop like Text effects with simple CSS. Imaged Borders Ability to provide multi-column layout. HSL color support Voice Effects (Called aural CSS usin...

Yet another milestone in Science. Scientist claim now that they can make a three dimensional object invisible. Isn't Sounds like Sci-Fi? Have look at the video. Listen to Prof. Michio Kaku explaining this thrilling innovation. Watch the latest news video at video.foxnews.com Thinking about the implications of this tech... Un-Imaginable...

Rich Internet Applications (RIA) have made the web more interactive and cool. Apart from the jargon "AJAX" there are many more things to it. The predominantly used tools for making the web richer are: Flash JavaFX Adobe AIR  Microsoft's Silverlight etc., Though these tools make the web more powerful there is a bottom-line constraint of installing the plugins. How many time we face this problem of plugin not found?. (Particularly in Linux platform) Qn : So what is the solution?  Ans: HTML 5. HTML5 can redefine RIA to a greater extent. HTML5 provides tags for "video" etc. So if your browser can understand HTML5 then no need for any of the above plugins. The major advantages of this approach are: Web would become "open" with respect to RIA. All of the above said plugins are proprietary. We want web to be open. So it is better to use non-proprietary tools. (at least for client side if not all) Being the native code HTML5 would possibly be more opt...

Cricket is no exception to technology impacts. We have seen during the past decade how this sport has benefited (!) by introduction of technology. Continuing this trend, rather at a increased pace I wondered how cricket would be around 2015. These are simply the glimpses of my thoughts at this point in time: Smart Pitch Reader : Instead of manual pitch reports there would be specialized devices which would scan the pitch with various sensors for factors like moisture, hardness, soil type, grass length, grass orientation, wind direction & speed etc. The collected data would then be analysed with the help of data-mining techniques with the global database and the behaviour of pitch would be predicted with maximum possible accuracy levels. Smart Fielding Guide : Think of a situation when the captain is running out of ideas. He would be given a specialized device which would guide him to set the fielding. He might get spots in the ground illuminated (indicating fielder positions). ...