Mobile and Social Networking

The world is shrinking ... into the mobile set. We are seeing an explosion of WiFi devices and palm sets which are now hooked on to the internet all the time.

Does this call for Web 3.0? Social networks are now becoming the next mode of delivery of content. Everyone is hooked on to either Facebook, MySpace, Linked In or Orkut. These are now becoming the modus operandi of the communication network.

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Like it or not, with the advent of APIs for these - currently spearheaded by Facebook and Google. Check out Google's opensocial API for these, we should soon see a merginig of the twain - mobile and social networking.

It is not surprising that Google is also interested in the mobile space therefore and now leads a consortium of mobile device manufacturers to rally around the operating system Android for such devices. Could this be the next wave?

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Watch out Apple and Microsoft - if the battle was earlier for the internet, today it is for the mobile device and social networking.

No more operating systems - Hypervisor

With the prevalence of the Virtual environment described in a previous post, it has become possible to have multiple separate "operating systems" like Windows, Linux etc. run on a underlying system called the hypervisor.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor

The Hypervisor is soon to become a necessity with more and more vendors interested in providing their version of the Hypervisor which will be the true operating system.

Think of a spyware free world soon where the operating systems and the software can be replaced at a wink. The virus attacks do not and cannot gain control of the underlying operating system since they do not have access to it. The word "virtual" suddenly got much more real.