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Green Hosting Solutions Are The Future Of Internet Hosting

- Thursday, 6 December 2012 No Comments

Few people stop to consider the electricity usage of the Internet. Gamers, newshounds, politicos, writers and other Internet users can take the Internet itself for granted. How much electricity does the Internet actually use? The answer may be incalculable. One estimate from Netcraft puts the number of websites online at 620,480,777 as of October 2012. This is a staggering number of sites. Consider the varying amounts of content each site has. All of those websites added together draw enormous amounts of electricity from the grid.


Hosting solutions use a lot of power. That much is clear. What are the implications of this fact for environmental issues? Could "green hosting" play a role in the future? Depending on the source of the electricity, Internet hosts could contribute either net-negative or net-positive impacts on the environment. Either way, cutting electricity usage would make Internet hosting more efficient and less costly. Server hosts often shell out thousands of dollars per month for electricity alone.

Green hosting provides an answer to the issue of environmentally-friendly electricity generation. Data centers, which usually consist of hundreds if not thousands of servers, are switching to green energy, including solar, wind, hydroelectric and geothermal, where available. Google, in particular, has led the way in "greening" its data centers to not only lower energy consumption but more efficiently use the energy they do consume. This can only have a net-positive impact on the environment.

Using less energy means less reliance on fossil fuel power generation. Energy efficiency means wasting less of the energy that is used, which also contributes to lowering energy consumption. Fossil fuel power generation, like coal-fired power plants, have a number of negative aspects. Air pollution was a huge problem until the advent of modern air-scrubbing technologies. Today, pollution is not as big of a problem as in the past, but it still exists.

Pollution has largely been subsumed by the larger issue of global warming. The carbon dioxide emitted by coal-fired power plants contributes to climate change in a big way. Lowering or eliminating the dependence of the Internet on coal-fired power plants helps the environment by improving air quality and lessening the impact of climate change.

Lowering energy consumption to the point where green energy sources become practical is the solution to eliminating the environmental impact of the Internet. Green hosting is the key part of that solution. Global warming and pollution will no longer be an issue once it becomes popular.

Guest Post: Mac Connolly has worked in the technology industry for the past 25 years, working for various well-known brands. He is currently working with Melbourne Server Hosting as a freelance writer sharing his experience of technology and the advances within green hosting and data centres.

Tags: cyber crime / cyber security / internet / patent

Patenting and Intellectual Property Trends

- Saturday, 10 November 2012 No Comments

There are quite a few trends in patenting and intellectual property when it comes to recent years in the mobile and computing industry. As with other intellectual property rights such as exist for various art forms, both software and hardware can be patented and considered to be intellectual property for creative purposes.

The purpose of patents

The purpose of patents and intellectual property is for all basic intents and purposes to allow the original creator of the product to benefit from receiving financial compensation for his or her work for a fairly limited time period. Nobody should be expected to work for free, but the basic premise of the law is to guarantee that once an idea has had some good traction, it become open for exploitation by competitors so that innovation and development can be fostered.

In recent years we have seen increasing litigation regarding patents and infringement, involving companies such as Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, Apple, Google and Sony. In many cases what happens is that open source development tools are used and incorporated into a company’s methods so much so that because of poor record keeping and data maintenance code is unintentionally or in some cases deliberately used without permission.

How to protect your ideas

If you are developing software or hardware, it is important to keep good records of all of your processes. Code that you develop should be annotated and sourced wherever necessary appropriately. You should always have your legal team verify any new licenses that are adopted into your software and you should ascertain that all of your coders have appropriate sensitivity training towards intellectual property.

How mobile devices can help you

Mobile computing devices such as iPhones, Androids and tablet devices have risen in popularity over the last few decades as businesses were able to go more mobile due to better technology. Nowadays, your entire development process from concept to patent to product can be diligently tracked and recorded instantly, with wireless technologies used to update all relevant information centrally. This cuts down on administration time and in the long run deters legal issues as with live, diligent tracking of processes, it is more likely that infringements will be noted early and corrected.

In the long run then, when considering the gravity of the cases that have been on trial and the awards handed out to companies who were found to be victims of infringement it makes perfect sense to invest in proper record keeping procedures with mobile devices.

Irene Perlog is a dedicated writer at VPNServices.net, where she writes vpn reviews on providers like Hidemyass (only objective and original reviews).

Tags: internet / mobile broadband

Tips For Getting The Best Mobile Broadband Deals (And Cheap Internet)

- Thursday, 1 November 2012 No Comments

All providers say they have the best mobile broadband deals but chances are, only a few of them stick to their word. To really grab a good deal, you must assess whether or not they are telling the truth or just practicing false advertising.

      Most people who sign up for mobile broadband feel cheated by their providers. Internet is either slow or has unbearable signal. With a contract at hand, that means being stuck with poor internet for months or years! Trying to get the best mobile broadband deals should be the first consideration when looking for internet and this is done by comparing all deals side by side.

The following tips will not only get you the best mobile broadband deals but they will also keep you from regretting your choice.

Step 1: Look for providers with the technology of your choice

Mobile broadband is available in third-generation (3G) and fourth-generation (4G) technology. 4G can be up to 10 times faster than 3G but is not yet available in all countries. 3G is more widespread but it doesn’t deliver speeds that can match up to 4G. When this option is available to you, look for providers offering the technology of your choice.

Step 2: Choose a provider that has good coverage

Now that you have a preferred technology, compare providers to determine which has the best 3G or 4G signals. You can use your smartphone or compatible tablet for this step. If you don’t have one, you can borrow your friend’s device for testing.

Connect a device to 3G or 4G and see how strong its signals are in your home and areas of the city you frequent. The strength of signal on a device reflects the quality of coverage. Perform this step using SIM cards of different providers. That way, you can compare their services to one another and narrow your options to those with good coverage.

Step 3: Choose your plan

Mobile broadband is available in two packages – pay as you go (PAYG) and contract. Both mobile broadband deals have their pros and cons.

With PAYG, you have to pay for mobile broadband based on the time spent online. The time limit with PAYG ranges from one day to a month, depending on the provider. The biggest advantage of pay as you go is that you can cancel any time. Because of this, many people use PAYG mobile broadband to test the services of each provider before signing up for a contract. However, you have to pay for the dongle up front and deal with costlier fees.

A contract ties you to a provider for an extended period. Contracts are usually offered in 12- and 24-month packages. Data may be capped each month but some providers offer unlimited data use. Switching to other providers is difficult and impossible early on.

Mobile dongles are given free to contract subscribers. Monthly fees are also more affordable with a contract. Unfortunately, you will be stuck with the same provider for a very long time. And while some of them give you one month to opt out of a contract, you still have to give a notice of cancellation.

Step 4: Compare prices

Compare PAYG and contract prices of different providers. Don’t forget to consider upfront fees, limitations on data use, and contract period when comparing prices. That way, you can better decide which provider offers the best packages.

Author biography: Judene Macariola spends some of his time writing articles about various internet options. He works as an analyst for Broadband Expert, a company that helps people find the best mobile broadband deals in their area.

Tags: Anonymous / cyber security / internet

How to disappear yourself from the Internet

- Saturday, 23 June 2012 No Comments

The Internet companies that power your online life know that data equals money, and they're becoming bolder about using that data to track you. If they get their way, your every online step would be not only irrevocable, but traceable back to you. Fortunately, there are some positive steps you can take to reclaim your online history for yourself.

The online privacy software company Abine, which makes Do Not Track Plus, also offers a service called DeleteMe, which removes your data from numerous tracking sites and keeps it from coming back. In an unusual gesture, though, they've made public how to do for yourselfeverything that DeleteMe does. Here's my take on their advice.

Be warned, though. The following are not easy instructions, and it's not because they're technically complex. They require a tenacity and wherewithal that is likely to either exhaust you, drive you borderline bonkers, or both. (And no, I haven't followed the instructions to remove myself because it's essential to my job that I can be found by strangers.)

Step 1: Prepare yourself: You're going to have to be polite.
These instructions require patience for the antics of others and determination to get the job done. It's not a bad idea to get something inanimate to take your frustrations out on, because often getting your data successfully removed or changed will require the good faith of the person you're dealing with. Things are not likely to go your way the first time around.

Step 2: Aggressively track sites that aggressively track you.
This is where the DeleteMe service comes in. They currently charge you $99 to un-track you from the tracking data clearinghouses, which in turn sell your data to others entities. You can follow Abine's list of services and do the deed yourself, and that means writing many e-mails, sending numerous faxes, and placing enough phone calls to make you wish for a time machine so you can go back to the 19th century to do violence unto Alexander Graham Bell.

One thing that isn't clear from Abine's list is that most of these data aggregators will re-add you within a few months, so I recommend at least bi-annual checks to see if they've sucked up your data again. Be tenacious, be polite, and if this is important to you, stick with it until you get what you want.

If you're concerned about privacy and people making connections between your birthday, your address, and your Social Security number, you owe it to yourself to perform at least one Web search for your name and see what comes up. You might be unpleasantly surprised.

Step 3: To protect your reputation, removal must be done from the source.
To get Google, Bing, and other search engines to notice a change in information as it is presented on the Web, the original site hosting that information must change. It doesn't matter which site is the source. It could be Facebook, or a local blog, or a gaming forum. If it's showing up in search results, it has little to do with the search engine and everything to do with the site of origin. Once that site has changed, then you'll see a change in the search results.

Getting something removed from a site is not a scientific process, even though you must be methodical about it. Ask politely, and as I noted above, you're likely to have to ask more than once and using more than one way to communicate. You likely will have to be a rake at the gates of Hell, but one that uses words like "please" and "thank you".

Look for the name of a writer, or Web site manager, and if no contact information is listed, do a WhoIs search by typing "whois www.site-name.com". Be sure to include the quotes. That will tell you who registered the site, which is a good place to start on smaller Web sites. Look for phone numbers, e-mail, and fax numbers, and follow up your initial communication.

Once you have a name, even if you can't find a phone number or e-mail, you can probably take an educated stab at one. Use a site like E-mail Format to help you out. And in your e-mail, be sure to explain clearly, concisely, and logically why your request ought to be honored.

A willingness to compromise can get you better results, too. If, for example, your initial request to fully remove your name gets refused, see if asking to have your identity anonymized will work. And if one person at the site you've contacted keeps stalling you, see if there's another you can contact instead.

Step 4: Get Google to hustle on search engine changes.
If you've been successful in changing a site, but Google is still showing the older version, you can use Google's URL Removal Tool to accelerate the process. Note that this will require a Google account, and that if you get Google to change, you're going to have to submit requests to other major search engines like Bing separately.

Step 5: Paint over the bad with good.
In cases where you can't get the site to remove the content that's negatively affecting your reputation, you can create new, fresh, positive content to counteract it. The idea is that the Positive You will bury the Negative You. Rick Santorum is a great example of how this can work in reverse, and no, I'm not going to link to it for you.

You can also use social-networking sites to bury bad news. From About.Me to Flickr to Twitter, social networks tend to rank highly in search results. By creating and maintaining accounts that use your real name, you can elevate the social networking results for your name and, ideally, drop the results you want to bury onto the second page of results. Since studies show that second-page results are viewed significantly less often than first-page, this could be a successful burying strategy.

However, a key component of this is linking the networks, so be prepared to do far more social networking than you had been.

Also read :Your every internet activity is tracking by trackers - TED Talk by Gary Kovacs

via : cnet

Tags: cyber security / internet

Your every internet activity is tracking by trackers - TED Talk by Gary Kovacs

- Friday, 8 June 2012 No Comments

As you surf the Web, information is being collected about you. Web tracking is not 100% evil -- personal data can make your browsing more efficient; cookies can help your favorite websites stay in business. But, says Gary Kovacs, it's your right to know what data is being collected about you and how it affects your online life. He unveils a Firefox add-on to do just that.

Firefox add-on to track the trackers - Collusion


About this Add-on

Collusion is an experimental add-on for Firefox that allows you to see which sites are using third-party cookies to track your movements across the Web. It shows, in real time, how that data creates a spider-web of interaction between companies and other trackers.


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Tags: innovation / internet

IPv6 : The next version of the Internet protocol launch – June 6, 2012

- Tuesday, 5 June 2012 No Comments

When the Internet launched operationally in 1983, no one ever dreamed that there might be billions of devices and users trying to get online. But like a telephone network that is running out of phone numbers, the current Internet is running out of IP addresses, and if we don't roll out Internet Protocol v6 (IPv6), we won't have the room we need to grow and the Internet would become tangled, unsafe and unsustainable.



This week, a new global project was launched by the Internet Society. The Internet Society are behind a lot of things on the Internet, among them the work done in the Internet Engineering Task Force. Last year, they announced the World IPv6 Day and got a lot of web site owners involved in one day of testing dual stack on their web servers. This year, web site owners will launch dual stacks on their web servers June 6th – and keep it active


IPv6 is the new net address system that replaces the current protocol IPv4, which is about to run out of spaces to allocate. Web companies participating in the event have pledged to enable IPv6 on their main websites from that date. The Internet Society, which made the announcement, said the day represented "a major milestone" in the deployment of the standard.
Facebook, Google, Microsoft Bing and Yahoo are the inaugural web firms involved.

Every device connected to the internet is assigned an internet protocol (IP) address, which is a string of numbers that allows other devices to recognise where data comes from or should be sent to. The IPv4 system has approximately four billion IP addresses. The growth in the number of smartphones, PCs and other web devices and services meant that net regulator Icann had already handed out its last IPv4 sets to regional registries. At the time it said businesses needed to start preparing themselves for a switch to the IPv6 standard, which offers more than 340 trillion trillion trillion addresses.


Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist at Google, and a founding father of the Internet, discusses the next version of the Internet, IPv6, and why we need it. 




http://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/

Tags: innovation / internet / web technology

Top web Technology of the last decade that changed the internet landscape.

- Saturday, 31 December 2011 No Comments

So we finally entered into a new year, just think back to the 10 year back from now and look around now we’ll see very significant advancement, especially in the areas of the Web platform. The last 10 years were actually a very good time for innovation and progress.

Here is some selection of technologies of the past 10 years that have just brought a remarkable revolution in internet landscape and made the biggest advances in our life.

1. Ajax

The term Ajax was coined on 18 February 2005 by Jesse James Garrett in an article entitled "Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications. Ajax is  an acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML  is a group of interrelated web development methods used on the client-side to create asynchronous web applications. With Ajax, web applications can send data to, and retrieve data from, a server asynchronously (in the background) without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page. Data is usually retrieved using the XMLHttpRequest object. Despite the name, the use of XML is not needed (JSON is often used instead), and the requests do not need to be asynchronous.

In the 1990s, most web sites were based on complete HTML pages; each user action required that the page be re-loaded from the server (or a new page loaded). This process is inefficient, as reflected by the user experience: all page content disappears then reappears, etc. Each time a page is reloaded due to a partial change, all of the content must be re-sent instead of only the changed information. This can place additional load on the server and use excessive bandwidth. Asynchronous loading of content first became practical when Java applets were introduced in the first version of the Java language in 1995.


 2. IRC

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a protocol for real-time Internet text messaging (chat) or synchronous conferencing. It is mainly designed for group communication in discussion forums, called channels, but also allows one-to-one communication via private message as well as chat and data transfer, including file sharing.

IRC was created by Jarkko Oikarinen in August 1988 to replace a program called MUT (MultiUser Talk) on a BBS called OuluBox in Finland. Oikarinen found inspiration in a chat system known as Bitnet Relay, which operated on the BITNET. IRC was used to report on the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt throughout a media blackout. It was previously used in a similar fashion during the Gulf War. Logs of these and other events are kept in the ibiblio archive.

3.Blog

A blog (a blend of the term web log) is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger on 17 December 1997. The short form, "blog," was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase we blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in April or May 1999.

Blogging is going to be a rising phenomena that will bring information to a far more democratic level than anyone ever believed possible. The governments and the power structure will have to contend with the power of the individual blogger. Bloggers are changing the face of the world by turning the web into aforum - for the people, by the people and of the people.

4.Rss

RSS (originally RDF Site Summary, often dubbed Really Simple Syndication) is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format. An RSS document (which is called a "feed", "web feed",or "channel") includes full or summarized text, plus metadata such as publishing dates and authorship.

The RSS formats were preceded by several attempts at web syndication that did not achieve widespread popularity. The basic idea of restructuring information about websites goes back to as early as 1995, when Ramanathan V. Guha and others in Apple Computer's Advanced Technology Group developed the Meta Content Framework. RDF Site Summary, the first version of RSS, was created by Dan Libby and Ramanathan V. Guha at Netscape. It was released in March 1999 for use on the My.Netscape.Com portal. This version became known as RSS 0.9. In July 1999, Dan Libby of Netscape produced a new version, RSS 0.91, which simplified the format by removing RDF elements and incorporating elements from Dave Winer's scriptingNews syndication format. Libby also renamed RSS Rich Site Summary and outlined further development of the format in a "futures document".

This would be Netscape's last participation in RSS development for eight years. As RSS was being embraced by web publishers who wanted their feeds to be used on My.Netscape.Com and other early RSS portals, Netscape dropped RSS support from My.Netscape.Com in April 2001 during new owner AOL's restructuring of the company, also removing documentation and tools that supported the format.

5. HTML5

HTML5 is a language for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web, and is a core technology of the Internet originally proposed by Opera Software. It is the fifth revision of the HTML standard (created in 1990 and standardized as HTML4 as of 1997) and as of December 2011 is still under development. Its core aims have been to improve the language with support for the latest multimedia while keeping it easily readable by humans and consistently understood by computers and devices (web browsers, parsers, etc.). HTML5 is intended to subsume not only HTML 4, but XHTML 1 and DOM2HTML (particularly JavaScript) as well.

The Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) began work on the new standard in 2004, when the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was focusing future developments on XHTML 2.0, and HTML 4.01 had not been updated since 2000. In 2009, the W3C allowed the XHTML 2.0 Working Group's charter to expire and decided not to renew it. W3C and WHATWG are currently working together on the development of HTML5.

Even though HTML5 has been well known among web developers for years, it became the topic of mainstream media in April 2010 after Apple Inc's then-CEO Steve Jobs issued a public letter titled "Thoughts on Flash" where he concludes that Adobe "Flash is no longer necessary to watch video or consume any kind of web content" and that "new open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win".This sparked a debate in web development circles where some suggested that while HTML5 provides enhanced functionality, developers must consider the varying browser support of the different parts of the standard as well as other functionality differences between HTML5 and Flash. In early November 2011 Adobe announced that it will discontinue development of Flash for mobile devices and reorient its efforts in developing tools utilizing HTML 5.

6. Voip

Voice over IP (VoIP) is a family of technologies, methodologies, communication protocols, and transmission techniques for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet. Other terms frequently encountered and often used synonymously with VoIP are IP telephony, Internet telephony, voice over broadband (VoBB), broadband telephony, and broadband phone. The roots of Internet phone service or VoIp goes back to 1995 when a small telecom company called Vocaltec released its first Internet phone software. The software had been designed for a home Pc and used similar attachments like headsets, microphones, sound cards and speakers. This software called ‘Internet Phone’ used the H.323 protocol instead of the currently prevalent SIP protocol. This software was very well accepted in the market and by 1996 Vocaltec had a successful IPO running. The position that SKYPE occupies in the market was then occupied by Vocaltec. The draw back because of which this software suffered was the non availability of broadband and a resultant poor voice quality owing to modems. The voice quality was worse than the normal phone calls.

7. Semantic Web

The Semantic Web is a collaborative movement led by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that promotes common formats for data on the World Wide Web. By encouraging the inclusion of semantic content in web pages, the Semantic Web aims at converting the current web of unstructured documents into a "web of data". It builds on the W3C's Resource Description Framework (RDF)

The concept of the Semantic Network Model was coined in the early sixties by the cognitive scientist Allan M. Collins, linguist M. Ross Quillian and psychologist Elizabeth F. Loftus in various publications, as a form to represent semantically structured knowledge. It extends the network of hyperlinked human-readable web pages by inserting machine-readable metadata about pages and how they are related to each other, enabling automated agents to access the Web more intelligently and perform tasks on behalf of users. The term was coined by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web and director of the World Wide Web Consortium ("W3C"), which oversees the development of proposed Semantic Web standards. He defines the Semantic Web as "a web of data that can be processed directly and indirectly by machines."

Many of the technologies proposed by the W3C already existed before they were positioned under the W3C umbrella. These are used in various contexts, particularly those dealing with information that encompasses a limited and defined domain, and where sharing data is a common necessity, such as scientific research or data exchange among businesses. In addition, other technologies with similar goals have emerged, such as microformats.

8. UGC

User generated content (UGC) covers a range of media content available in a range of modern communications technologies. It entered mainstream usage during 2005 having arisen in web publishing and new media content production circles. Its use for a wide range of applications, including problem processing, news, gossip and research, reflects the expansion of media production through new technologies that are accessible and affordable to the general public. All digital media technologies are included, such as question-answer databases, digital video, blogging, podcasting, forums, review-sites, social networking, mobile phone photography and wikis. In addition to these technologies, user generated content may also employ a combination of open source, free software, and flexible licensing or related agreements to further reduce the barriers to collaboration, skill-building and discovery.

9. Cloud computing

Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a metered service over a network (typically the Internet).

Cloud computing is a marketing term for technologies that provide computation, software, data access, and storage services that do not require end-user knowledge of the physical location and configuration of the system that delivers the services. A parallel to this concept can be drawn with the electricity grid, wherein end-users consume power without needing to understand the component devices or infrastructure required to provide the service.

The idea of an "intergalactic computer network" was introduced in thesixties by J.C.R. Licklider, who was responsible for enabling the development of ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) in 1969. His vision was for everyone on the globe to be interconnected and accessing programs and data at any site, from anywhere, explained Margaret Lewis, product marketing director at AMD. "It is a vision that sounds a lot like what we are calling cloud computing."

10.Firebug

It may seem a little strange to include a Firefox extension in this list, but don’t underestimate Firebug’s influence. In 1999, JavaScript and CSS debugging was almost impossible using the tools provided with IE. The rise of Web2.0 applications would have certainly been slower if it were not for Firebug and the many tools that imitate its functionality.

11.Youtube

YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of PayPal. Hurley had studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, while Chen and Karim studied computer science together at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. According to a story that has often been repeated in the media, Hurley and Chen developed the idea for YouTube during the early months of 2005, after they had experienced difficulty sharing videos that had been shot at a dinner party at Chen's apartment in San Francisco. Karim did not attend the party and denied that it had occurred, while Hurley commented that the idea that YouTube was founded after a dinner party "was probably very strengthened by marketing ideas around creating a story that was very digestible".

YouTube offered the public a beta test of the site in May 2005, six months before the official launch in November 2005. The site grew rapidly, and in July 2006 the company announced that more than 65,000 new videos were being uploaded every day, and that the site was receiving 100 million video views per day

12. Quora

Quora is a question-and-answer website created, edited and organized by its community of users. The site was founded in June 2009, launched in private beta in December 2009, and made available to the public on June 21, 2010.

Quora was co-founded by two former Facebook employees, Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever. D'Angelo quit his position at Facebook in January 2010 to create Quora and said he was inspired to create Quora because he thought: "that Q & A is one of those areas on the internet where there are a lot of sites, but no one had come along and built something that was really good yet." Quora's base of users grew quickly in December 2010. Quora had half a million users in January 2011.In June 2011, Quora redesigned its website, in order to make information discovery and navigation easier. Nevertheless some critics said that the redesign was inspired by Wikipedia. Quora released an official iPhone app on September 29, 2011.

13. Facebook

Do we really need to introduce facebook to anyone anymore ? well everyone is already know the magic of facebook that how it changed the whole social structure of the world .

Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc.As of July 2011, Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile.

Mark Zuckerberg wrote Facemash, the predecessor to Facebook, on October 28, 2003, while attending Harvard as a sophomore. According to The Harvard Crimson, the site was comparable to Hot or Not, and "used photos compiled from the online facebooks of nine houses, placing two next to each other at a time and asking users to choose the 'hotter' person".

14. LAMP

LAMP is an acronym for a solution stack of free, open source software, referring to the first letters of Linux (operating system), Apache HTTP Server, MySQL (database software) and PHP (or sometimes Perl or Python), principal components to build a viable general purpose web server.The GNU project is advocating people to use the term "GLAMP" since what is known as "Linux" is known to GNU as the GNU/Linux system.

The exact combination of software included in a LAMP package may vary, especially with respect to the web scripting software, as PHP may be replaced or supplemented by Perl and/or Python. Similar terms exist for essentially the same software suite (AMP) running on other operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows (WAMP), Mac OS (MAMP), Solaris (SAMP), iSeries (iAMP), or OpenBSD (OAMP).

15. Twitter

Twitter is an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets". It was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 300 million users as of 2011, generating over 300 million tweets and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day.

The Internet revolutionized how business was done and how a company marketed to its consumers. One of the most interesting aspects of Twitter is that it has develop its own niche in the social media world. Facebook has many more users, but Twitter is easier to use and allows a business to connect with its customers in a more casual way. Twitter has developed into a mini-Google for consumers and allows for more targeted marketing for a business.




16. Peer-to Peer

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technology is a distributed network architecture that allows data to be spread from computer to computer without a central node. One of the major advantages of this type of setup is that as more people log on and use the network, they add their resources (like bandwidth), so the network scales automatically as demand increases — meaning that the more people using a P2P network, the faster it generally becomes.
The idea rose to mainstream prominence in 1999 with the launch of Napster, a P2P software product that allowed people to trade MP3 music files with one another. Though the service was eventually litigated out of business by the music industry, it arguably changed the way music — and later movies and other types of media — are distributed, and paved the way for the success of MP3 players like the iPod and legitimate online music stores like iTunes. Indeed, it can be argued that without P2P networks making the idea of trading MP3 files and movies over the Internet commonplace, legitimate services that allow us to do things like stream multimedia content and store entire music libraries on our cell phones might have never been made.
Today, P2P traffic accounts for anywhere from 27-55 percent of all Internet traffic (depending on location), and popular peer-to-peer protocols, such as BitTorrent, continue to influence everything from music and film distribution to network architecture and Internet legislation.