Interesting concepts on the “Webolution”

Great article on ITWeb entiled “Where to next for Webolution?”

Read it here: http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/internet/2009/0903131038.asp?A=CEL&S=Cellular&O=E&E=alan@aat.co.za.com

Some points mentioned that can use a further explanation:

Moment of Relevance
Coined by Stafford Massi, it refers to a user on the web being able to quickly find information relevant to his/her geo location and demographic data, leading to greater trial and purchase opportunity.

Semantic Web
“…semantics of information and services on the web is defined, making it possible for the web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web

Semantics
“Semantics is the study of meaning in communication… reflects the meaning of programs or functions… semantics permits programs to be separated into their syntactical part (grammatical structure) and their semantic part (meaning). ”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantics

Cloud computing
“…It is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualised resources are provided as a service over the Internet.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing