Siegfried Reich

100 + Million Web Sites

Netcraft just reported that there are more than 100 Million web-sites available. The exact figure for end of November 2006 is 101,435,253. Amazing!

The current population of the earth is estimated at 6667075382 (that is what the Java applet displays on Nov. 24 2006, 22:11:02). That is one site for about 65 people. The question is whether No. of people or No. of sites will be growing more quickly …

See http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2006/11/01/november_2006_web_server_survey.html. Particularely interesting is the graph that visualises the growth (i.e., the steepness of the curve in recent years): see
((c) news.netcraft.com)

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The IST-Conference in Helsinki …

… was very well attended. Apparently some 4300 participants were there.

My impressions in two sentences are

• Intelligent Content, or, multimedia and semantics are core themes. In FP6 as well as in FP7
• I still somewhat miss the broad take-up by industry. There are some what you would call “early adopters”; however, the majority of industrial players in my opinion is still rather sceptical.

And: amongst the many sessions I attended, I participated in the Wednesday session on “intelligent content and semantics” where Paul Kafno provided an excellent metaphor: he argued that “content is like milk; it goes off very quickly and you need a fresh bottle of it every day”. I think this expresses very well the users’ perspective on content.

BTW: the conference’s homepage (with many of the presentations available online) can be found at http://europa.eu.int/information_society/istevent/2006/index_en.htm.

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