My Friendly Neighbors

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My Friendly Neighbors
Web Enhanced

• Kanad Dixit

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Who are they ?

• Them ?

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Or these ?
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Well .. Here are they
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They are not neighbors !!!
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We are neighbors here !!
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Social Networks
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• Evolution

• Problems

• Future

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Big Bang

• It all began in 1995 Classmates.com
• MySpace,Orkut, Facebook atleast 100 popular
  ones
• Secondlife.com 3D online digital world

Circle of Trust
Yahoo 3600
Tribe.net
Linked-In
Circle of Friends
Bebo
Tagged
Friendster
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Why Social networks ?

• Its fun
• Its free
• Its the best thing to do when you are getting
  bored in class

People have been the same. Then why now ?
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Conditions were conducive

• The earth hasnt cooled down further !!
• Broadband Internet
• Many super cool and super fast web application
  development platforms
• Lots of free web space ?

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Challenges

• (www.myspace.com/tom)
• Multimedia Heavy (Audio / Video)
• DNS heavy
• http//www.myspace.com/
• What do I cache ? (Cool New Videos
  36,262 uploaded today! )
• So many usersUser count 168,112,249

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And More challenges

• http//www.secondlife.com/
• Total Residents5,786,458
• Logged In Last 60 Days1,769,831
• Online Now31,321
• Quality of service
• Privacy concerns
• And many more !!!!

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But there are always solutions

• Increase bandwidth
• Increase DNS Caching
• Companies like Akamai, dedicated to solve caching
  problems.

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Tomorrow
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Social Networks are here to stay

• Getting Bigger and better
• Joining Hands for global community
• Huge untapped potential
• Center point for online commerce
• Leading the web 2.0 revolution
• Still some skeptics not accepting them

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Thank You