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Dec 29, 2007
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 In my last blogs we discussed the shift in Web and also the Web 3.0 Technology. So as a final point what do we expect from this New Generation Web? It wont surprise me if Web 2.0 just turns out to be a stage making way to a much more mature and durable Web 3.0 is going to deliver a new generation of business applications Web 3.0 era. Over a couple of weeks I have been reading articles and trying to analyze key characteristics of Web 3.0, using a lot of company examples like Google, Amazon and Ebay. But I’m not too sure if all these companies will be leading the Web 3.0 era. Some less mentioned companies like WebEx, WebSideStory, NetSuite, Jamcracker, Rearden Commerce and Salesforce.com have also been casting light on how Web 3.0 might take over the World of Web. Read More I would like to make a point here for people still not very clear about Web 3.0. This new web isn’t just about shopping, entertainment or some kind of search, instead it will bring in a new generation of business applications that will change the definition of all the above mentioned terms. So will the 'Web 3.0' be the Semantic Web? Probably yes. It might just take some time to annotate the world's information and then to capture personal information in the right way, to enable the kinds of applications that we have discussed. For all my interest in the technologies being used, I see two drawbacks to Web 3.0 or the New Generation Web. Semantic Web (Web 3.0) is just Personalized WebThe first is that, to me, the semantic web isn’t a web centralized in a specific tool or environment instead web in a whole. If we have a " Facebook and Wikipedia mashup", it might be successful, and it might be semantic, but it isn't the web. The whole point of the semantic web technologies is for each of us to interpret our data, wherever we are, regardless of tool, and begin to really drive out the tiny threads of true meaning on a global scale. If we have to leave our places where we're at and go elsewhere, this seems to create a disconnect, right from the start. The second issue I saw the marketing hype associated with the tool; the uses of the terms: "Web 3.0", "semantic graph", and the "first mainstream Semantic Web application". I can understand the reasoning behind the marketing. After all, this is the candy that lures in the kiddies, and adds billions of valuation to chaotic applications like Facebook. Lack of effective promotion is what the semantic web supporters have been criticized for in the past. At the same time, the marketing, location, and early associations also serves to enclose the application within an increasingly limited community. I can't think of anything more 'not' semantic web than to become part of such an narrow community. Still, these are my perceived drawbacks based on what I read. I won't know anything 'real' until I try the app myself. Summary Technology has advanced to the point where YouTube is everywhere. There are thousands of YouTube clones, and vertical knock-offs launching every day. Anyone with a video camera and something to say now has a channel. Some are even interesting! Cable has competition. BIG TIME. As this isn’t an article about Cable, I’ll get back to my point, which is about Web 2.0 and it’s future numbered revisions. Blogging has taken on a life of it’s own. From the “I’m stuck in traffic” entries, to the every day facets of life those just aren’t interesting. I still desire to read something worthwhile from someone I respect, or that makes me think. I believe Web 3.0 is likely to use technology to a greater degree than even today, but perhaps Web 4.0 - there might be a realization that many people documenting their lives is not good for the masses, it’s good for family trees. It’s today’s diary. I’d love to look back and review highlights of my life, (some parts at least), and share them with my children. But do I care if I was stuck in traffic on Wed. December 8th 2006? Nope. If I don’t care, who will. No one of course. Without giving up too much, and I have already, I feel the future of the web is self regulating. Some Related Articles:Web 2.0 manages to sober upWeb 3.0 starts with your phoneAre we heading towards another Internet CrashA techno-revolutionary trip to the InternetEvolution not RevolutionWeb 3.0 - May be we get there
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Dec 26, 2007
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 My last blog on the shift and comparison between Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 defined the basic structure of Web that we look forward to in years to come. Now when people are struggling to get their heads around Web 2.0. I wouldn’t say we emerged from the session with a clear picture of this third generation Web. But I’m just trying to give you some ideas on the same.
Anyone who read articles on the Internet business descended on the San Francisco Web 2.0 summit recently this year, which featured speakers such as Jay Adleson of Digg.com, Steve Ballmer, the Microsoft chief executive, MySpace co-founder Chris De Wolf, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Tim O’Reilly, founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, Inc., and many other brains behind high profile websites and properties on the Internet. One of the topics of heated discussion to come out of the seminar was the ‘web’s edge’, what lay beyond web 2.0 and how will the semantic web or ‘web 3.0' link all the Internet’s data in an intelligent fashion? A new type of Internet is being imagined, far beyond what we are experiencing today.
We all looking for a Web that will link every aspect of our digital lives, web, email, mobile, knowing the subject of the email you are writing whilst suggesting books, videos and documents that may be relevant to that topic. A smart Internet is waiting…
All the shifts in Web movements (Web 1.0 to 2.0) have been possible cause of the technology that drives them. . If it was not for the Wiki and the idea of “community voting” then Web 2.0 would never have occurred.
Web 3.0 is much more than just semantics. I would like to state it as a Web where everything will be smart. User will not have to visit several websites to search for information. In this New Generation Web what we call Web 3.0 users will just have to send out their software agent to search for their relevant information. For example instead of going to websites for checking fares and flight timings user will be able to see the records for every flight they’ve ever taken on any airline, the miles they have covered, where they went, what happened to their luggage, etc - all in one place.
And for this we will have to get very good at specifying the exact meanings of things and we will have to improve our research area so that various pieces of software can make sense of our requests. It's a lot easier than repeatedly trying to find the right phrase to type into Google!
Technologies Web 3.0 will comprise of
Cloud computing
Open peer-to-peer grid storage, and computing capabilities on the Web.
Mobile Web
Higher bandwidth, more storage, and more powerful processors empowering mobile devices.
Personalization
Increase in the power of personalization tools and personal assistant tools.
Search
Smarter search engines that not only answer questions, but will accept commands.
Data integration and portability
Improvements in account portability, integration, and data between different Web applications.
Databases
Fundamental change, moving away from the relational model and object model towards the associative model of data (graph databases and triple stores).
One of the main organization tools in Web 3.0 that we will use is widgets and a host of data management technologies. Many of these technologies are here today, in one form or another.
RSS. A Web 3.0 Driver 
As we all know that the entire business models are being created around aggregating meta-data. Netvibes allows you to create your own personal homepage, drawing much of its content from RSS feeds that you select. iGoogle does the exact same thing.
In Web 3.0 RSS will be extended to include a host of data-points it currently does not. Each blog post, every picture, every video clip will have searchable, taggable, XML based syndication around it.
Software Agents And Expert Systems
Web 3.0 will have Software Agents and Expert systems as an off line access point. A knowledge based system i.e. a computer program that contains some of the subject-specific knowledge and a piece of software that acts for a user or other program in a relationship of agency.
The Secrecy Caution
Reputation management, Data privacy will be some major issues of Web 2.0. When users are given a provision of RSS feed (in one form or another), the ability to protect the feed can be crucial.
Web 3.0 gets in the improvement in privacy features. The ability to block certain actions from being indexed, or limit the access to your profile by third party sources will be the next big push in internet security and privacy.
I weigh in favor of Web 3.0. Again, Web 3.0 is an area where there's little bit of experimentation with a lot in the way of results, in terms of doing something useful for a large number of people on Web. Whether Web 3.0 or what we call the Next Generation Web can do it is anyone's guess.
I would like to take this topic further and discuss the whole Web 2.0 roundup and take a sober look at the pluses and minuses here.
Some Related Articles:
What to expect from Web 3.0?
A more Revolutionary Web
What comes after Web 2.0?
A Smarter Web
Web 3.0 and beyond
Defining Web 3.0 Technology
Is Web 3.0 another Buzz?
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Posted On
Dec 22, 2007
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 As we all see that everyone in the industry has made Web 2.0 their favorite buzzword for technology today. But now when we are on the cutting edge of Internet competition and as technology moves forward we soon be hitting with a whole new bubble of Web 3.0. This new Web 3.0 might turn the Internet into a huge database and our place in it will be to organize this source of information into parts that are suitable to us.
It entirely would depend on how we will make use of this new web to make search for information much easier, it can be our guide to the future of Internet technology. I’m not the only one to speculate about Web 3.0, but the companies and some famous bloggers also give a sneak peak at what the Internet’s future has to offer.
A lot of you who are reading this are bloggers, you might be interested to know about this shift from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 change in the technology. In this post I want to discuss about what do you want to see in the coming Web Technology that we might have missed in the existing.
As Steve Spalding describes:
“Web 3.0 as a set of highly specialized information silos, moderated by a cult of personality, validated by the community, and put into context with the inclusion of meta-data through widgets”.
Searching Information 
Today Web uses keywords to collect data into usable amount. Search Engines index the Internet en masse and present it to the end user in order of significance. They settle on relevance by using complicated algorithms. But Web 2.0 changed the basic way we searched. With introduction of tags users could describe anything as anything and search for items in a manner people look at it.
Web 3.0 will take this one step further. If you are searching for information on Mobile phones, for example, you would use the search engine as you normally would, but your results would be more specialized sub engines. I would find Nokia Search or Motorola Search. From there, I would be able to dig deeper and find items that have been tagged as relating to Nokia and sort them into their major categories (pictures, videos, blog posts, news articles, commerce etc…) Each of these could be captured as an RSS feed so that I can be alerted when something new is added to by search profile.
The engines will order these items in a new way combining the old and the new web. The strong tags that are used currently by these engines would be carried further but some importance would be given to that are flagged by communities as interests and votes.
Searching Validation
There will be a whole new approach to information, example if im looking for news on a particular item instead of information, my search will definitely be slightly different. Along with the specialized search engines, People Search would be available. One could type what they looking for like “Conservative viewpoint on Indian Nuclear Deal” for example and it would pull up results ordered by relevance (algorithms), tagging, and validation through user voting.
Searching Entertainment
Stumble Upon may be the closest comparison to how we will be entertained in Web 3.0. You fill out a profile, define your tags and then flip the channel. It will be a lot like services like Swicki as well, where you can interact with the content that you are seeing and generate communities around it.
Example: Swicki, StumbleUpon, Joost
Search for People (Social Networks)
Can you imagine a technology where you look for a friend and the search shows all the networks he/she is a part of and produce a feed around them. Wow! I can see the word social networks completely changed into “People Search”. If I put a proper name into the search engine of Web 3.0 it would provide the running profile of my presence on the web; it would show everything in the webosphere that has been tagged as belonging to me, ordered by community validation and relevance.
Example: Explode, Spock, The Gorb, Orangeply.
E-Commerce 
The entire advertising setting will change, as companies do their best to target the niche audiences produced by the inclusion of People Search and very specific subengines. Contextual advertisement will take second seat to product placements on sites, search results and subengines relating to the messages that companies are trying to get out.
Example: MySpace
These were all the basic changes that might take place in the shift of Web. I would like to continue talking about it in my next blog on Web 3.0 Designs. There is a lot more exercise in understanding how people will naturally take this transformation and we will discuss it further in my coming blogs.
Some Related Articles:
From Website to Web service
Web 3.0- You have seen nothing yet!
Web 3.0
Todays Web 3.0 Blogstorm
Define Web 3.0
The more Revolutionary Web
Web 3.0 and Beyond
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