10 Projects to Liberate the Web. In the last nine months of planning the Contact Summit, I’ve come across a range of projects and initiatives building toward the “Next Net.” Though they vary in their stages of development and specific implementations, they fall under the common themes of enabling peer-to-peer communication and exchange, protecting personal freedom and privacy, and giving people more control over their data and identity on the web. Here’s list of just ten projects, many of which will be demoing at our exhibitor space at Contact on October 20th in New York City. 1. The Locker Project The data that we generate on the web every day is being collected, stored and sold by third parties, but we are left unable to benefit from that value we create. What it means: Step 1 is to create the lockers that allow people to collect all their data in one resource. 2. 3. Lantern is a globally cooperative censorship circumvention tool build on the Little Shoot peer-to-peer platform. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.
Do Fries Go With That Business Shake(up)? BBC News - Tim Berners-Lee on the challenges facing the internet. This page provides a structured representation (serialized as HTML+RDFa) of the description of a given Web-accessible resource, which resource is indicated (or denoted) by the hyperlink. The data represented here is structured as Entity-Attribute-Value (EAV) graphs, and it may may be retrieved in a variety of other serialization formats via hyperlinks (URLs). Available serialization formats currently include CSV, HTML+Microdata, (X)HTML+RDFa, N-Triples, Turtle, N3, RDF/JSON, JSON-LD, RDF/XML, Atom, and CXML. This page and its neighbors provide starting points for SPARQL queries over HTTP, or SQL queries via ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, OLE-DB, and XMLA connections, with results spanning the entire Web.
A variety of discovery pointers are available to users and user agents (software programs) that include: <link /> relations embedded within the <head /> section of each description page. "Link:" response headers included as part of HTTP response metadata. Yes! <link rel="alternate" type="<mime type>" What is Web 3.0? Semantic Web & other Web 3.0 Concepts Explained. Web 3.0 will be about semantic web, personalization (e.g. iGoogle), intelligent search and behavioral advertising among other things. This slide neatly sums up the main differences between Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0. Web 1.0 – That Geocities & Hotmail era was all about read-only content and static HTML websites. People preferred navigating the web through link directories of Yahoo!
And dmoz. Web 2.0 – This is about user-generated content and the read-write web. Web 3.0 – This will be about semantic web (or the meaning of data), personalization (e.g. iGoogle), intelligent search and behavioral advertising among other things. If that sounds confusing, check out some of these excellent presentations that help you understand Web 3.0 in simple English. Web 3.0.