Monday, October 24,
2011 at 4:54pm UTC+02
Web 3.0 is going to be
like having a personal assistant who know everything about you and can access
all the information on the internet to answer any question. Web 3.0 will be a
giant database. Web 2.0 uses internet to make connections between people while
web 3.0 will use internet to make connections with information. An upgrade to
the browsers technologies will occur. As you search the web the browser will
learn what you are interested in. You will need to ask only: “I want to see a
funny movie and then eat at a good Mexican restaurant. What are my options?”
SuPeR CooL :-)
eMarketer expects online
retail sales to grow 21% to $131 billion this year. Over the next four years,
sales will increase at a 17% compound annual growth rate.
What is next for the
Internet? Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google,
and one of the founders of the Internet, talks about the 3 big issues facing
the Internet and some of the exciting developments happening now.
Country credit rating,
0–100 (best) - Expert assessment of the probability of sovereign debt default
on a 0–100 (lowest probability) scale. Institutional Investor's Country Credit
ratings developed by Institutional Investor are based on information provided
by senior economists and sovereign-debt analysts at leading global banks and
money management and security firms. Twice a year, the respondents grade each
country on a scale of 0 to 100, with 100 representing the least chance of
default.
Broadband Internet
subscriptions per 100 population - Number of fixed broadband Internet
subscriptions per 100 population. Total fixed (wired) broadband Internet subscriptions
refers to subscriptions to high-speed access to the public Internet (a TCP/IP
connection), at downstream speeds equal to, or greater than, 256 kb/s. This can
include, for example, cable modem, DSL, fiber-to-the-home/building, and other
fixed (wired) broadband subscriptions. This total is measured irrespective of
the method of payment. It excludes subscriptions that have access to data
communications (including the Internet) via mobile cellular networks.
Stage of technology
development
Capacity for innovation
WORLD - In your country, how do companies obtain technology? [1 = exclusively
from licensing or imitating foreign companies; 7 = by conducting formal
research and pioneering their own new products and processes]
Capacity for innovation
BALKAN countries - In your country, how do companies obtain technology? [1 =
exclusively from licensing or imitating foreign companies; 7 = by conducting
formal research and pioneering their own new products and processes]
- Numebr of beds - hotels - non resident - All Europe countries ... EU = 11.89 milion;
- nights spend - hotels - non resident - All Europe countries ... EU = 729.821 milion nights;
- Arrivals - hotels - non resident - All Europe countries;
Total debt service (% of exports of goods, services and income) - Total debt service
is the sum of principal repayments and interest actually paid in foreign
currency, goods, or services on long-term debt, interest paid on short-term
debt, and repayments (repurchases and charges) to the IMF. Exports of goods and
services includes income and workers' remittances. Source: World Bank, Global
Development Finance.
Services, etc., value added (% of GDP) - Services correspond to ISIC divisions 50-99 and they include
value added in wholesale and retail trade (including hotels and restaurants),
transport, and government, financial, professional, and personal services such
as education, health care, and real estate services. Also included are imputed
bank service charges, import duties, and any statistical discrepancies noted by
national compilers as well as discrepancies arising from rescaling. Value added
is the net output of a sector after adding up all outputs and subtracting
intermediate inputs. It is calculated without making deductions for
depreciation of fabricated assets or depletion and degradation of natural
resources. The industrial origin of value added is determined by the International
Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC), revision 3. Note: For VAB countries,
gross value added at factor cost is used as the denominator. Source: World Bank
national accounts data, and OECD National Accounts data files.
Cash surplus/deficit (% of GDP) -
Cash surplus or deficit is revenue (including grants) minus expense, minus net
acquisition of nonfinancial assets. In the 1986 GFS manual nonfinancial assets
were included under revenue and expenditure in gross terms. This cash surplus
or deficit is closest to the earlier overall budget balance (still missing is
lending minus repayments, which are now a financing item under net acquisition
of financial assets). Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance
Statistics Yearbook and data files, and World Bank and OECD GDP estimates.
GDP growth rate - Percentage change of
real GDP compared to previous year. Real GDP is adjusted for inflation.
THE TOP TEN COUNTRIES WITH THE HIGHEST POPULATION
Priceline.com - Incorporated is a global
online travel company that offers its customers a range of travel services,
including the opportunity to purchase hotel room reservations, car rentals,
airline tickets, vacation packages, cruises and destination services in a
price-disclosed manner. It also offers its Name Your Own Price service that
helps its customers to use the Internet to save money by allowing them to make
offers for travel services at prices they set, while enabling sellers, which
include many of the domestic hotel, airline and rental car companies, to
generate revenue. It offers its customers hotel room reservations at over
150,000 hotels worldwide through the Booking.com, priceline.com and Agoda
brands. It offers customers the ability to make hotel reservations on a
worldwide basis. It offers a retail price-disclosed rental car reservation
service through TravelJigsaw Limited, which it acquired in May 2010.
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