Web 2.0

As mentioned in an earlier blog on CISTM2009 I would like to talk about some interesting discussions on the topic of Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing. The track was chaired by Dr. Jai Ganesh and I was one of the panelist on this discussion. The third panelist was Prof. Rahul Singh, of the North Carolina University at Greensboro.

The discussion started off by Jai describing our take on the intersection of Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing. He elaborated on one of the basic tenets of Web 2.0 viz Web as a Platform and discussed how this connects with the concept of cloud computing. He highlighted the merging of software as a service (SaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) leading to computing resources available as and when someone needed them.

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The 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), 2009 was recently held in San Francisco. The conference was themed as 'The Golden Gate to the Future of IS (Information Systems)'. As part of the research group at Infosys, from the Web 2.0 Research Lab Dr. Jai Ganesh and I chaired three mini-tracks in this conference. These were:

The overall conference was replete with variety of parallel tracks including those on Design Theory,  Analytical Modeling and Simulation, Decision Support Systems, diffusion of IT, eBusiness and eCommerce, Enterprise Systems all the way to Social issues of IT.

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Social networking on Mobile has already hit a high. Its interesting to see startups like Dodgeball (now Google's) , Zyb as well as mainstream online networking sites like Facebook, MySpace are making their way to mobiles. Whereas web-apps have taken ad-hoc networking to a next level, it has to be in mobile space where realtime and localised networking can grow. Someone's stuck in the traffic jam of Hosur Road (Bangalore) and loooking for a VoIP chit-chat, or just idling in Zoo Park looking for an enthuastic group to have better time, or probably looking for a friend nearby to have cup of tea by knowing their positions using GPS, all this is quite possible using present technologies. Even Indian Railways can be a good use case in India, as its the largest carrier of passengers in India. People frequently take long trips of over 24hrs, with not much activities to engage themselves. With useful networking opportunities, probably youngsters and amateurs may benefit and utilise the idle time. Long flight travels and waiting hours on airports can also be utilised in similar fashion. Besides,  mobiles excel in their realtime networking due to their fakeless presence and unique identity. If I have set of mobile contacts and email contacts, I know mobile ones are more real and more responsive than my email ones. The fact that most mobile service providers have services inside a country makes it more localised and hence more suitable for this.  But that's not the end, mobiles have lot more to offer..

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