August 2008, I went for a 2 months self-drive journey into main National Parks & Game Reserves of Botswana & Namibia. During this trip more than 6000 photos were taken and following friends advise, I have now published a coffee table book which contains the Best 100 shots.

A preview is available online.

A 2 months jou…

By Cedric Favero

Book Preview

Years after years, Newspapers & Photo agencies propose their traditional review of the Year in pictures.

Here below a quick selection for 2008:

• The Boston Globe proposes a selection of 120 photos. Part 1, 2 & 3
• Sports Illustrated comes with 56 images from 2008 sports events.
• The New York Times has selected 8 different categories
• French Newspaper Liberation published its review here
• Reuters news agency review is here

Any other review that you would recommend ?

Happy New Year 2009 !

During the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco, Kevin Kelly, co-founders of Wired magazine explained simply the History of the Web and sketched what could be the next 6500 days.

3 chronological phases brought the Web to what we have today:

1. Computers are connected together. The Net is used to share “packets”. (No intimacy, nothing personal).
2. Documents are linked together. We start to share links. (a bit more intimate and personal as they are documents).
3. Today, we share data. We establish links among information which are inside the pages. We share our data and information.It’s where we are today.

So, what next ? How the Web will continue to evolve ?

Kelly says that the Web will be quite different than what we know today. It may look like a big machine with clouds which will contain all data. The Web will be tomorrow’s Operating System which will catch everything. We will access to it though lots of different kind terminals (computer, phone, fridge, TV, car’s GPS, etc..).

Kelly characterizes three elements which are already on the way :

1. A broad trend inclines to move everything to clouds.
2. At the same time, a broad displacement of all documents to databases which become the foundations on which the whole system relies on.
3. Then to make it works, to create a dataflow and to give signification to all these data: sharing is the key element which makes the machine to work.

According Kelly, in 6500 days our life will always been connected. We will be totally dependent of the network connectivity. New values will have to be invented to collectively managed the rules related to the sharing of these data which will be the essence of our tomorrow’s lives and collectives values.

Scary ? Unavoidable ? Already on its way ? or just a vision from a Silicon Valley geek  ?

Watch Kevin Kelly’s speech during Web Summit 2.0 last week in San Francisco.

Sources: Transnets