Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud.
We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
Internet pundits and prognosticators Melih Abdulhayoglu and Henry Blodget will talk about the future development of the Internet, "Web 3.0" and the road to getting there in a live, Internet event on Thursday, March 19. The latest program in PalTalk's TechNow series is entitled "Transforming the Web into Your Web, and Internet users can log on to Paltalk.com to submit questions and participate.
Among the topics for examination:
What is "Web 3.0" and how is its development and success tied to users' ability to know who and what they can trust online?
How do users leverage the real time potential of social networks to provide us with trusted information if we have no authentication means within these networks?
Is it possible to vet the information and identities of everyone users encounter on the Internet?
Technology has been working on creating an intelligent search agent that learns an individual's search preferences. Can new "intelligent identity agents" be created to actively monitor transactions, connections and even information?
Blodget is the notorious CEP of Silicon Alley Insider, a website dedicated to and created by the New York digital business community. The site offers news, commentary, and talk about New York companies and people. It features, news, entertainment, music, gaming, digital publishing, and social networking.
Abdulhayoglu is CEO and Chief Security Architect of Comodo, an Internet security company. The Comodo companies provide the infrastructure to enable Internet-connected companies, software companies, and individual consumers to interact and conduct business via the Internet safely and securely.
This discussion on March 19 at 3:00 p.m. (EST) will be the last program in Paltalk's TechNow series. It will focus on the powerful challenges that new tools, new social networks and new ways of connecting present to individual Internet users and to society.