Web on Everything

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Web on Everything

• Dr. Rohit KhareDirector, CommerceNet Labs
• W3C_at_10 Session 5215-300PM 1 December 2005

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Web on Everything?!

• on the telephone?
• Entire conference proceedings worth of
  interactive voice recognition and response
  systems were brought back into the spotlight now
  that the Web could bring real information to bear
  for weather, flights, news, etc.
• on chopsticks?
• When we moved into Tech Square, we were
  astonished to see that even the lunch trucks were
  posting menus online by 1994
• on the refrigerator?
• Yes, even from kitchen appliances! (LG, Samsung)

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Web on Everything?!

• on the go?
• By far the most commercial contentious scenario
  for extending the web to a new platform was the
  cellphone market
• New form factor
• Limited input mechanisms
• Flaky networks
• and most worryingly, a history of closed
  systems
• Ultimately framed as an unnecessarily divisive
  WAP vs. Web tradeoff, since Web standards
  can/did adapt.

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Todays Speakers

• Takeshi Natsuno, NTT DoCoMo
• Balaji Prasad, EDS
• Philipp Hoschka, W3C