Access to information over the Internet and the growing accessibility to powerful, less expensive personal computers have helped in creating a new brand of user. This user is more self-reliant, comfortable with technology, value-oriented, and accepts the Internet as a convenient, secure, and reliable means of commerce. Based upon these developments, we believe that this trend has created a growing opportunity to provide online services that are easy to access, easy to use, cost effective, and secure. Some of these trends include:

- Internet Connection (Aol, Earthlink, Rogers, MuFi, etc)
- Internet Portal (Aol, Yahoo, Msn, Protopage, Netvibes, Pageflakes, 24eyes, iGoogle, etc)
- Webmail (Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo.mail, Web2mail, etc)
- Collaborative Content (Zoho, SharePoint, CollectiveX, GoogleDoc, etc.)
- Search Engine (Google, Yahoo, Viewzi, Cuil Wolfgan, Bing, etc)
- Voip (Skype, Webex, NetPhone, etc)
- Social Network (GoogleWave, Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, etc.)
- Blogs (Blogs, Digg, Boingboing, etc.)
- Bookmarks (Blink, Diggs, delicious, etc)
- Shopping (Amazon, Ebay, Nexttag, Target, etc)
- Media (Youtube, iTune, Last.fm, Blip.tv, Beet.tv, etc)
- News (NyTimes, ZDNet, Cnn, etc.)
- Maps (Googlemaps, MapQuest, TeleNav, Tomtom, etc.)
- Applets (YahooWidget, JavaApps, GoogleGadget, Widgetbox, etc.)
- Reference (Dictionary, Wikipedia, GoogleTranslator, etc.)