2006-2007 Trends in Internet Frontier development

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This year, the Chinese Internet ushered in an unprecedented new situation. First, Chinese netizens have reached 137 million, which lays the foundation for the growth of Internet users. Secondly, the development of the search engine rewrote the business rules established by the traditional portal, intelligent search, social search, vertical search and so on become the new bright spot. Thirdly, the development of blogs, podcasts and wiki has shaken the dominant position of the traditional portals, influenced the mode of production of the information, and made the portal have to re-examine the competition environment of the Internet, and to make a new layout. Finally, the group, the community and other fields, so that users fully experience the virtual information life, social life and material lives of the interaction, the three major portals of the full participation for its development has provided an important impetus.
In the 2007, the Internet ushered in a new phase, many areas will be from the conceptual stage to the application phase, and get real development.

1. Enterprise 2.0 application will become the new bright spot of internet development

Enterprise 2.0 (Enterprise 2.0) is a Web 2.0 technology based network software (such as blogs, wikis) used in enterprises and organizations to support internal collaboration, knowledge management, and so on.

2007 Web2.0 Service will be widely integrated into enterprise application, which brings new impact to enterprise IT architecture, process reengineering and so on, Enterprise 2.0 application will become the new bright spot of internet development.

2. The rapid development of mobile Internet may lead to great changes in traditional Internet

Mobile Internet allows users to access the network anytime, anywhere, especially in the coming 3G era, faster speed, richer services to provide users with a variety of choices. The traditional Internet information, games, E-commerce and other services can be successfully extended to the mobile Internet, and so can be a huge change.

For China, which has nearly 460 million mobile users, the rapid development of mobile Internet is of particular importance. Huge market space contains unimaginable business opportunities.

3. Social commerce will likely change the way people consume

Social Commerce (Social Commerce) allows users to fully participate in all aspects of the transaction, not just the business site as the main body. Interactive communication between users, Word-of-mouth communication in the marketing, purchase decisions and other trading links to provide a wealth of information, play an important role.

At present, the domestic social business has just started, but the blog, SNS, groups and other Web2.0 services and the rapid development of the growing awareness of user participation, for the development of social business has laid a good foundation, people's consumption patterns may be due to the rise of social commerce and change.

4. The combination of virtual and reality provides a huge space for the expansion of the network.

With the help of virtual reality (Reality) and other technologies, users can enter the three-dimensional virtual environment, can be with users, Web sites for more in-depth, more real communication, which provides a virtual life on the Internet, to provide a perfect combination of virtual and reality possible.

SecondLife's great success in the 2006 is just the beginning, in the virtual environment into advertising, friends, shopping, tourism and other services contain unlimited business opportunities for the expansion of the network to provide a huge space for imagination.

5. Social search will become a mainstream application

Social search in the traditional search to join the user participation, through a large number of users to determine and match the content more accurate. Social search links include the main applications of web2.0, such as wikis, nets, RSS, blogs, and so on.

Baidu through the know, encyclopedia, space, search and hide products are building the framework of social search, Yahoo is the social search as one of the strategic direction. At the same time, a large number of Web2.0 Web sites have also provided a good foundation for the realization of social search, so there is reason to believe that social search will become a mainstream application.

6. More and more Web sites are starting to use AJAX technology

Ajax (asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a combination of technologies that enables Web pages to be redesigned without interrupting interactive processes, enabling dynamic updates, and creating a direct, richer, Dynamic Web user interface interface near local desktop applications.

Ajax technology In addition to Flickr, YouTube and other Web2.0 emerging sites, more and more Web sites began to use Ajax technology, especially the most typical Google products, Yahoo's new home and new mailboxes, NetEase's new version of the home and so on because of the use of Ajax technology has become concise, easy-to-use and more powerful features.

Because of the outstanding benefits of Ajax in terms of improving the user experience and improving usability, there will be more Web sites using this new technology portfolio in the future.

7.Mashup will be a new way of future content innovation portfolio

A mashup is an internet-based data integration application that blends content from multiple sources. Common can be through the open API, RSS and other ways to integrate different content sources.

Mashups have been widely used abroad, such as Google Maps through the open API, allowing users or other sites to make local restaurant maps and so on. As blogs, web picks, pictures, and video services become more widely available, mashups provide a new way to creatively combine these disparate content.

8. The network operating system gradually unveiled the mystery, the online Office service application will be more extensive

The network operating system (Web Operate System) is a browser-based, virtual operating system. Users can use the browser to perform various network applications on the Web OS, as they do with the local machine. In 2007, Google is expected to launch its own web OS to compete with Microsoft Vista. Incomplete statistics currently have at least 15 webOS, typical web OS has youos and Eyeos.

Online Office service Application refers to the Internet based Office software services, users do not need to purchase and install Office software, you can directly use the relevant online office services. Google has launched Gmail, Docs&spreadsheets, Microsoft has distributed Office Live, and a number of Web sites and software companies to start providing online office services, 2007 online Office service applications will be more and more extensive.

9. Service-oriented architecture will bring great business value to the enterprise

A service-oriented architecture (service-oriented Architecture,soa) is a component model that helps organizations flexibly adapt to changes in the environment and, once new requirements are made, can be combined on the basis of existing systems without redesigning and creating new systems. At the same time can speed up development, improve development efficiency, save costs.

SOA is still at an early stage of development in the country and is new to many companies, but there are already a significant number of companies that are aware of the business value of SOA, and surveys show that Chinese companies have increased their commitment to SOA very quickly. The next year or two will enter a period of rapid development.

10. Software services will bring new opportunities to the software industry, software enterprises face the challenges of internet transformation

Software Service (Software-as-a-service,saas), is the software provider through the Internet to provide software model. This new model allows users to hire software instead of buying software, no need for a lot of hardware input, personnel maintenance, and so on, thus saving a lot of costs, but also enjoy the timely upgrade of services.

The development of software to the Internet will bring new opportunities for the development of software enterprises and Internet enterprises, and the traditional software production mode will be impacted greatly, and the software enterprises are facing the challenge of transformation.