My Friendly Neighbors

Kanad Dixit

Web Enhanced

Who are they ?

Them … ?

Or these ?

Well .. Here are they…

They are not neighbors !!!

We are neighbors here !!

Social Networks

Evolution

Problems Future

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

Circle of Friends

Friendster

Yahoo 3600

Bebo

Tribe.net

Tagged

Linked-In

Why Social networks ?

It’s fun It’s free It’s the best thing to do when you are getting

bored in class

Conditions were conducive …

The earth hasn’t cooled down further !!– Broadband Internet– Many super cool and super fast web application

development platforms– Lots of free web space

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 users…User count : 168,112,249

And More challenges

http://www.secondlife.com/– Total Residents:5,786,458– Logged In Last 60 Days:1,769,831– Online Now:31,321

Quality of service Privacy concerns And many more !!!!

But there are always solutions

Increase bandwidth Increase DNS Caching Companies like Akamai, dedicated to solve

caching problems.

Tomorrow

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

Thank You