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Posted by Kas Thomas APR 21, 2011

Posted in cq5, ipad, iphone, mobile, the web and tools Comments 2



Are you ready to leverage the Mobile Internet?

With tablet and smart-phone shipments eclipsing PC and laptop shipments -- and with new mobile broadband connections far exceeding the number of new fixed broadband connections  -- it's clear that a tipping point in thie history of the internet has been reached. Which means that now may be as good a time as any to ask yourself: Are you well-positioned to leverage the Mobile Internet?


Former Morgan Stanley research analyst Mary Meeker (now a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers) recently gave a state of the Mobile Internet presentation at Google. Slides from that presentation can be seen here:

Top 10 Mobile Internet Trends (Feb 2011)

The slideshow is full of mindblowing numbers, charts, and observations. Some of the leading takeaways:

• Mobile Internet data traffic is expected to grow by 26X over next 5 years
• Mobile Internet devices are expected to reach 10X the billion-or-so devices on today’s Desktop Internet
• The Mobile Internet is growing much faster than the Desktop Internet did
• The Mobile Internet will be a much bigger phenomenon than most people think
• One of the big growth drivers is the Tablet

The last point is worth emphasizing. Did you know that in its first 3 months, Apple's iPad outsold the iPod and iPhone (combined) by a factor of 3.5? Or that Gartner is predicting that by 2013, there will be as many tablets in use in the enterprise as there are PCs?


The fact is, we have entered a world in which realtime 24/7 broadband connectivity in the palm of one's hand is the new baseline.


This means that the majority of software interactions will (from this point forward) be occurring on handheld devices. If you're not poised to take advantage of this, you will soon be in a small (and diminishing) minority.

That's why Adobe Dreamweaver, Flash Builder, and CQ5 offer crossplatform mobile development and deployment options. And it's why you'll want to take an especially close look at the new release of the Adobe Enterprise Platform when it arrives soon. To take full advantage of Mobile, you need world-class design tools and runtime infrastructure that were created with Mobile in mind. Anything less is (or should be) unacceptable -- unless you're planning to live in the past.

 

Posted by David Nuescheler MAR 29, 2010

Posted in awards and the web Comments 2



And the winner is...: Robert Cailliau

Last week I had the honor to present the co-developer of the world wide web, Robert Cailliau, with a life-time achievement award of the Best of Swiss Web Association.




I was very flattered to be the person to present all his achievements during a gala dinner in the Kongresshaus in Zuerich. It was interesting for me in various different ways.

First I learned a lot of detail about the very beginning of the Web that I did not know before and it was a great opportunity for me to catch up with Robert and talk about old times.

Also I realized that we have a shared passion for standards which is really reflected on his website so we decided that I would not use Apple's Keynote  for the presentation (which usually would be my tool of choice), but I would use just a browser and XHTML, CSS (& friends).

Please find the "Directors Cut" of the presentation here, this version contains a number of extra slides as a little bonus.

Just like Roberts personal website it has not been tested with Internet Explorer and works best with Firefox & Safari on a Mac. Either click through the presentation or use the cursors on your keyboard to move through the presentation. In Firefox you may want to hit Shift-Command-F (on a Mac) for a fullscreen experience.


It definitely was a very interesting experience to give a presentation infront of 800 people without keynote as my trusty companion, but I have to say the rendering engines of browsers have come a long way, and it all worked out beautifully.



To give you a little bit of context I thought I'd write down some of the content of my presentation.


Robert and I met about 11 years ago when he was responsible for the public websites of the Cern. As a WCM Vendor we were invited to go and present our technology. I was fully aware of the importance of the Cern relative to the Web's history, but I was not prepared to meet one of the two developers of the Web in that meeting.

After the meeting I was deeply impressed with Roberts insights and went back to the office and googled him, which was when I realized who I had just met. It dawned on me that I had the opportunity to take a deep look into "Web history" that day.


Congratulations to Robert Cailliau, who I think of as a great visionary, but more importantly as a fascinating and charismatic genius who profoundly impacted all our lives.