Semantic. For:TomPeeters. 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. The Amazon E-Commerce API - open access to Amazon's catalog We have written here before about Amazon's visionary WebOS strategy. Why has Amazon offered this service completely free? The rise of the API culture The del.icio.us API offering today is different from Amazon's one, because it does not open the del.icio.us database to the world. Social Enterprise Software discussion buzzing last week. Across the blogosphere, the topic of “Enterprise Social Software” was hot this past week.
Fred Wilson asks if the term itself is an oxymoron.Sam Lawrence makes a case here on how social software vendors, including his own Jive Software, and SocialText, Atlassian among others, could upend the incumbent enterprise vendors SAP and Oracle, while referencing this article about a recent Forrester report about these emerging collaboration vendors.Dennis Howlett debates Sam and makes a case here for why the incumbents will not be upended, and partially bases his argument on this viewpoint on enterprise inertia from Sig Rinde.Jeff Dachis of Razorfish fame raises $50mm from Austin Ventures to pursue the social networking application space within the enterpriseLast, but not least, Oliver Marks provided a good synthesis of this set of conversations.
However, I feel the debate about this “Enterprise Social Software” market is being viewed through the wrong lens. 10 More Future Web Trends. Our post a few weeks ago, 10 Future Web Trends, received a lot of excellent feedback.
The most interesting was from people offering alternative future web trends to the ones we had chosen. In fact there were some grumblings that our 10 picks were not futuristic enough - so in this post let's see if we can address that! There's nothing smarter than 'collective intelligence' after all... From the comments and trackbacks to the original post, plus some hunting around of my own, here are 10 more future web trends: 1. 2. On the same theme, commenter #66, Jacqueline, said that "local and hyperlocal content/news systems are going to blow up in the not-so-distant future; based on the whole citizen journalism trend (and things like iphones, twitter, and devices/apps that haven't even been invented yet will make it possible for people to post breaking news literally as it happens). " Survey on collaborative use fof virtual worlds.