by Gene Phifer | March 6, 2009 | 1 Comment
On March 13, 1989, Sir Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first paper on adding hypertext capabilities to the Internet. At the time, the Internet was used almost exclusively by defense agencies, defense contractors, and higher education institutions. The traffic on the Internet was dominated by SMTP-based e-mail, NNTP-based newsgroups, FTP-based file transfers and TELNET sessions to [...]
Category: Uncategorized web Tags: anniversary, tim berners-lee, web
by Gene Phifer | September 21, 2008 | 2 Comments
Gartner’s 2008 Web Innovation Summit was held last week. It was an exciting week, with lots of good buzz from attendees and exhibiting vendors alike. As usual, the analysts did an outstanding job delivering presentations, running roundtable sessions, and doing client 1-1 meetings. I ran into a few surprises at the Summit. For one, I [...]
Category: Cloud web Tags: Cloud, cloud computing, SaaS, web, Web Innovation Summit
