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Wireless, Flash and and Social Networks

Emerging trends such as Open Source Content and Social Networks. Increased Access to Wireless network. The “golden” years of flash when a broader compatibility with browsers and scripts was completed. 2011 being its “the beginning of the end”. Flash (as it exists today) was created In November 1996 by Macromedia. Macromedia was acquired by Adobe Systems in 2005

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Iphone, Yahoo Search and Content Management Systems

The iPhone first hit store on June 29, 2007 and since then Apple has sold more than 30 million smartphones. Emerging trends such as CMS or Content Management systems such as Drupal, WordPress and less and less Joomla. In October 2007, Yahoo Search was updated with a more modern appearance in line with the redesigned Yahoo home page. In addition, Search Assist was added; which provides real-time query suggestions and related concepts as they are typed.

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Google, Search optimization and Mobile technology

In December 2009, Google announced it would be using the web search history of all its users in order to populate search results. Successful search optimization for international markets may require professional translation of web pages, registration of a domain name with a top level domain in the target market, and web hosting that provides a local IP address. Otherwise, the fundamental elements of search optimization are essentially the same, regardless of language. Emerging trends such as Mobile technology, Semantic Awareness.

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Twitter, Big data and Gamification

In 2011, we were creating 1.2 zettabytes, with one zettabyte equal to 1,024 exabytes :” This is the same as every person on Earth tweeting for 100 years, or 125 million years of your favorite one-hour TV show”. As of March 2011, about 140 million tweets were posted each day. Emerging trends such as Gamification, Mobile technologies.

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YouTube, Predictive Analytics and Augmented Reality Applications

Today, YouTube is the Internet’s most popular destination. It’s not the only video sharing website, but it’s easily the most popular. Driving this trend is something training companies have known for years: people retain 10% of what they read, 20% of what they hear, 30% of what they see and 50% of what they see and hear. By Cisco’s count, 91% of Internet data in 2015 will be video. Predictive Analytics will be increasingly used to identify outcomes. Augmented Reality Applications will grow in popularity.

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Podcasting, Augmented Reality and More Connected Devices

Birth of the cloud : The popularization of the term can be traced to 2006 when Amazon.com introduced the Elastic Compute Cloud (By 2020, one-third of all data will live in or pass through the cloud, Cisco predicts.). Emerging trends such as Podcasting, Augmented Reality. More connected devices than people.

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Mobile apps, Online Video and 3D Virtual Worlds

About 5 exabytes of unique information were created in 2008 (That’s 1 billion DVDs). A mobile app is a computer program designed to run on smartphones, tablet computers and other mobile devices.Apps are usually available through application distribution platform, which began appearing in 2008 and are typically operated by the owner of the mobile operating system, such as the Apple App Store, Google Play, Windows Phone Store, and BlackBerry App World. Emerging trends such as Online Video, 3D Virtual Worlds.

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Analytics and Digital marketing

Digital marketing overtook Direct marketing as a trend. Emerging trends such as Tablet computing, Mobile Apps, Learning Analytics. Mobile Apps emerged from early PDAs, through the addictively simple game Snake on the Nokia 6110 phone, to the first 500 apps in the Apple App Store when it made its debut in July 2008.

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Mobile Internet usage overtakes fixed Internet usage

Mobile Internet usage overtakes fixed Internet usage. In October 2014, according to the Interbrand ranking, Google was the second most valuable brand in the world (behind Apple) with a valuation of $107.4 billion. A Millward Brown report from the same year puts the Google brand ahead of Apple’s at #1.

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