Move yourself!: Users rule the web

Friday, November 10, 2006

Users rule the web

Probably, if you’re reading this, you ever used Second Life, or LinkedIn, or MySpace… Also you may know that then you’re part of the web 2.0. Basically, we could consider that web 1.0 is the way we used internet since its beginning, being a passive receiver of information, while now we can become a very active part of the web.

And all this is creating a wave for new businesses and new models. Most of them have online advertisement as one of the main source of income. And they are also looking for other sources of revenue. Or course some are asking for membership fees, or special services charges. Would you be willing to pay for one of these online social networks and what is the extra value you get from this decision?

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Mobile vocabulary

3GPP2: standardization organization in charge of mainly CDMA2000 and its succesive technologies
3GPP: standardization organization in charge of UMTS and its succesive technologies
Ad Hoc network: in this case for mobile uses, a self-configured network by the user's terminals themselves
Bluetooth: wireless technology for short range communications (between handset and headset e.g.)
CDMA2000: broadband wireless system based in CDMA, mainly used the US e.g.
CDMA: radio techique based on multiplexing specific codes for each user
DECT: digital standard widely used for portable phones
EV-DO: evolution of CDMA2000 that enhances the downlink performance
FOMA: broadband wireless system for third generation used in Japan
GPRS: modification of GSM to carry packet communications (more suitable for data)
GSM: second generation (digital) mobile system, worlwide succesful specially in Europe
HSDPA: modification of the WCDMA applied in UMTS to share resources and gain performance in the downlink
HSUPA: modification of the WCDMA applied in UMTS to share resources and gain performance in the uplink
IMT-2000: global definition for all the 3G (third generation) standard by the International Telecommunication Union
LMDS: broadband wireless access system working point-to-multipoint mainly in rural environments
MIMO: radio technique based on multiple transmitters and receivers
OFDM: radio technique based on multiplexing narrowband frequencies, that minimizes interference between carries
UMA: wireless system that allows to make seamless handover between local and wide area networks (also known as GAN)
UMTS: broadband wireless system that came after GSM, and mainly used in Europe e.g.
UWB: radio technique that uses a large shared bandwidth and normally has a short range
WiFi: wireless local area network, high speed but limited coverage
WiMAX: high speed wireless wide area network, based on the IEEE 802.16 standard
WLL: radio technique for a user's local loop (network access point)

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