Web 3.0 and beyond: the next 20 years of the internet - Times Online 

In the heart of Silicon Valley, at what is referred to, somewhat romantically, as the 'web's edge', something is stirring. A new type of internet is being imagined, far more powerful that the one which ... lets you link up with your friends or watch a video uploaded by a stranger. Facebook, YouTube and the other social networks and blogs that fall within the scope of 'Web 2.0' may be beginning to penetrate the mainstream, but to those whose Cassandra-like vision lets them see the web in 2020 and beyond, they are but a pixel in a much larger picture. In a little over a decade, according to the engineers building the internet of tomorrow, the web will be able to connect every aspect of our digital lives - be it a website, an e-mail, or a file on our PC - to every other aspect. It will know, for instance, when you are typing an e-mail, what the subject of the e-mail is, and be able to suggest websites and books as well as documents, photos and videos you have saved that may be relevant to tha   [More...] [Less...]

Web 3.0: When Web Sites Become Web Services - ReadWriteWeb 

Today's Web has terabytes of information available to humans, but hidden from computers. It is a paradox that information is stuck inside HTML pages, formatted in esoteric ways that are difficult for machines ... to process. The so called Web 3.0, which is likely to be a pre-cursor of the real semantic web, is going to change this. What we mean by 'Web 3.0' is that major web sites are going to be transformed into web services - and will effectively expose their information to the world. The transformation will happen in one of two ways. Some web sites will follow the example of Amazon, del.icio.us and Flickr and will offer their information via a REST API. Others will try to keep their information proprietary, but it will be opened via mashups created using services like Dapper , Teqlo and Yahoo! Pipes . The net effect will be that unstructured information will give way to structured information - paving the road to more intelligent computing. In this post we will look at how this importan   [More...] [Less...]

Knowledge Workers Access Web 3.0 at ManyWorlds.com 

Leading business site takes knowledge working to the next level by demonstrating adaptive recommendations technology and social networking that is seamlessly integrated with content management. The AI ... engine learns the preferences and interests of users and delivers that learning back to users throughout the content and social networking functions. Houston, TX (PRWEB) December 18, 2007 -- ManyWorlds Inc., the leaders in the development of adaptive Web-based systems and processes, announces the "Web 3.0" release of its leading business thought leadership portal, ManyWorlds.com . This release delivers the world's first fully integrated content and social networking system, and features AI functionality throughout the system. "While there is not a consensus definition on what constitutes Web 2.0 much less Web 3.0, we think people will know it when they see it," said ManyWorlds' CEO Steven Flinn. "Our belief is that the essence of Web 3.0 is the confluence of advanced and highly accessible   [More...] [Less...]

BBC's new media boss talks web 3.0 - Networks - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com 

Future media and technology director at the BBC, Ashley Highfield, has further fleshed out the organisation's plans to work with and distribute content digitally, admitting which areas are hardest and ... easiest to tackle and pointing towards a future web 3.0. The BBC had been "caught a bit out of sync with audience demand" for video over the web since 2005 but it is now well-positioned, said Highfield, speaking at a Prince's Trust Technology Leadership Group event yesterday. Understandably, he spoke about initiatives such as the Beeb's on-demand TV service iPlayer , which puts a rolling seven days' worth of BBC TV content on tap to anyone online in the UK. A public beta will be available from 27 July and Highfield promised future versions that would allow viewing via TV sets, programme stacking and - answering some early critics - use over mobiles, Macs and PCs running Windows Vista . The BBC's digital archiving initiative is also a big project, in several senses, Auntie owning more arch   [More...] [Less...]

Web 3.0 or 'Semantic Web' (Features by PC Magazine) [text/html, text/html]

New media, Anthony Lilley: Is web 3.0 a brand relaunch - just like Kylie's new look? | Media | MediaGuardian.co.uk 

So, finally web 2.0 is dead. Its jargon half-life has expired and the buzzword du jour is being interred and superseded. And by what? Well, you'll never guess. Long live web 3.0. Honestly, give me strength. ... We'll look back in 20 years and wonder when we decided to hand over the English language to people who can haggle for hours about the difference between versions 2.1 and 2.5 of some software. So, web 2.0 is gone - or at the very least it's lying in state with phalanxes of futurologists shuffling past nodding knowingly and basking in their own prescience. These are the kind of people who say that online is where they "live". Confusing abstract ideas with reality like this worries me. I spend a lot of time clicking a mouse, but, I think, I still exist. I'd advise people who are concerned that they're merging with their iMac to read some Sartre before asserting that they've coined a whole new philosophy. And if, after all that, they really do think that reality is the same as ideas, th   [More...] [Less...]

IET.TV - Web 2.0 for Business - What Is It and Where Is It Going? 

Web 2.0 for Business - What Is It and Where Is It Going? Rick Robinson Presentation from the IET seminar on Next Generation Internet Speaker: Rick Robinson, Web 2.0 Technologist, Emerging Technology ... Services, IT Architect, IBM, UK 27 Sep 2007 Technology - Information Professional ∙ Applications and technologies associated with Web 2.0 and their potential impact on the society ∙ Most promising trends for continued evolution ∙ Business propositions arising from Web 2.0 companies such as Facebook, Google and NewsVine ∙ The latest thoughts on Internet transformation after Web 2.0 <!-- Start of IET.TV webcast --> <script src="http://www.iet.tv/f/core/frontend/http/http.php?embed=5512popup=0.1.1.1%211.1.3.29946%2129946.2.1.29947-1" type="text/javascript"></script> <!-- End of IET.TV webcast -->   [More...] [Less...]