Web 3.0 is Web 1.0 (I Hope) I’m hoping web 3.0 goes back to the basics, although I’m not convinced that will be the case. Let me also backtrack and re-iterate that I hate buzzwords, so excuse my use of the terms web 3.0 and web 1.0. I am simply referring to the coming of the new-web. Wow, even that sounds wishy-washy… Simply put, I am hoping that the next big step for the web is actually two steps backward.
My aspiration is that we return to the original vision of Tim Berners-Lee of a semantic web, full of wonderful things such as directories and meaningful links. The world of search engine optimization (SEO), in essence, attempts to convert ambiguous, equivocal web pages to relevant, content-rich websites. I can’t say enough good things about sites that attempt to simplify the experience and provide a very focused, clean-cut offering. SEO, the Semantic Web and Information Discovery.
The following is a transcript of a talk presented at a dual meetup of Vancouver Search Engine Marketing Group and the The Vancouver Semantic Web Meetup Group on 6 January 2011. What is the Semantic Web? I'm not going to spend the next 45 minutes trying to define the semantic web – also called Web 3.0 – because it's in some ways as philosophical as technical, and is a matter of debate even among semantic web practitioners.
Instead I want to focus on three core concepts of the semantic web, keeping things a simple as possible. The father of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee defines the Semantic Web as "a web of data that can be processed directly and indirectly by machines. " The second concept – and perhaps the critically defining concept of the semantic web, is a reliance on structured data. RDF Triples Bear with me here as I get a little technical – it will be the only time in this presentation I do so – as I think the semantic web structured data deserves at least a cursory explanation. TMPE » Leveraging Web 3.0 – A Web for Business. Home > Web 3.0 > Leveraging Web 3.0 – A Web for Business January 19th, 2011 by Jiten Click the below links to read my previous two articles in this series:First part: “The Web – Future and Beyond”Second part: “Leveraging Web 3.0 – An Individual’s Web” The features offered by Web 3.0 are not just limited to an individual’s use but can also be leveraged effectively by an organization.
However, implementing semantics within business systems requires significant investment in revamping existing systems or building new ones to enable processing the right information. Hence, the Return on Investment becomes the key parameter to look at. To start with, the new web aims to reduce the barrier that separates business applications and communication networks thereby enhancing the data flow. Development of solutions will be aided due to the increased access to customer data and the ability to reuse it in different arms of the enterprise. ++What to expect from Web 3.0 | Software as Services | ZDNet.com. Any veteran of the software industry will tell you that version 2.0 of any product tends to be a shortlived staging post on the way to 3.0, which is where it finally hits the mark. Windows was a classic example. 1.0 was so buggy it was hardly worth using. 2.0 fixed some serious problems but still had a lot of shortcomings. 3.0, launched in May 1990, was an instant success, and the rest of the story, as they say, is history.
Don't be surprised, then, if Web 2.0 also turns out to be just a staging post on the way to a much more mature and durable Web 3.0 is going to deliver a new generation of business applicationsWeb 3.0 era. Over the next couple of weeks I'm going to be writing a series of posts about what I see as the key characteristics of Web 3.0, using a variety of on-demand companies by way of illustration. Of course I'll be mentioning Google, Amazon.com and eBay. But don't assume these companies will inevitably become the dominant players of Web 3.0. Minding the Planet: Understanding The Semantic Web: A Response to Tim O'Reilly's Recent Defense of Web 2.0. Tim O'Reilly, recently blogged another article about Web 2.0 Versus Web 3.0 in which he responded to some of my points about what Web 3.0 is and is not.
There are several points in his post that I need to respond to. Here is what I am going to cover in this article: Correcting some factual errors in Tim's post about Web 3.0 Web 2.0 = Industry Renaissance + Marketing Hype Web 2.0 was NOT mainly about back-end innovation Web 2.0 = The Social Web What's After Web 2.0? The Semantic Web = The Data Web The Value of Open Data Key Points of Differentiation Before I address where I agree/disagree with his article, there are some factual errors that should be corrected.
In fact, the term, Web 3.0, was independently originated by Jeffrey Zeldman, Tim Berners-Lee, Reed Hastings, John Markoff, and Dan Gillmor. If you are interested in the history, I would encourage you to read the Wikipedia page on the subject for a more detailed account. Web 2.0 started out as the name of a conference! Tim Berners-Lee. Biography A graduate of Oxford University, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing while at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory, in 1989. He wrote the first web client and server in 1990.
His specifications of URIs, HTTP and HTML were refined as Web technology spread. He is the 3Com Founders Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence ( CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he also heads the Decentralized Information Group (DIG). He is also a Professor in the Electronics and Computer Science Department at the University of Southampton, UK. Tim is a Director of the World Wide Web Foundation, launched in 2009 to coordinate efforts to further the potential of the Web to benefit humanity. (Longer biography) Address Email.
Techrepublic. Project_management. 10 ways IT wastes money on development. The Future of Artificial Intelligence. My Presentations on SlideShare. ++[evolution] Trendspotter calls for evolutionary adaptable software systems | Emerging Technology Trends | ZDNet.com. When you consider the quantity and diversity of models and philosophies available for software development, it's a wonder why many projects fail even when developers deliver on key criteria such as functionality, efficiency, reliability, and so on.
There's even a ZDNet blog that chronicles IT project mishap after mishap. But observers are noticing that a major shift to how software systems are developed is underway, and it's less rigid, more adaptive and evolutionary. In a recent post on Toolbox.com, David Tow, an Australian author, engineer, and technologist with 20 years experience and a knack for describing future trends, isolates the seminal problem of how best to capture the requirements of a system. "It is the elephant in the room at almost every CIO seminar and conference," he writes. After discussing where we've been, Tow explains the confluence of today's forces that impact development: He then points out examples of the evolutionary approach in action:
++Minding the Planet: Gartner is Wrong about Web 3.0. I have a lot of respect for the folks at Gartner, but their recent report in which they support the term "Web 2.0" yet claim that the term "Web 3.0" is just a marketing ploy, is a bit misguided. In fact, quite the opposite is true. The term Web 2.0 is in fact just a marketing ploy.
It has only come to have something resembling a definition over time. Because it is in fact so ill-defined, I've suggested in the past that we just use it to refer to a decade: the second decade of the Web (2000 - 2010). In contrast, the term Web 3.0 actually does refer to a set of new technologies, and changes they will usher in during the third decade of the Web (2010 - 2020). Essentially, the Semantic Web enables the gradual transformation of the Web into a database. The Semantic Web will manifest in several ways. Web 3.0 is not ONLY the Semantic Web however. So what other technologies can we expect in Web 3.0 that are actually new? Spectrum: R&D Goes Global. Microsoft moved up two slots, to ninth place, but even so it’s spending nearly a tenth less than the US $7.8 billion it spent in 2003, when it topped the leaderboard.
In that period the company’s sales grew by 41 percent, which means that the ratio of R&D spending to sales—called R&D intensity—declined to 13.9 percent from 21.1 percent. Automaker Daimler dropped to 22nd from second place largely on the divestiture of Chrysler, which doesn’t appear on the list because it’s privately held. Siemens dropped to 19th place from fourth because of a 32.3 percent cut in R&D; this cut, however, appears to be just an artifact of the way it accounted for its joint venture with Nokia.
In fact, Siemens reports that it increased its R&D spending by 300 million euros between 2006 and 2007. Fast-growing Google continued its ascent up the list, to number 59, increasing its spending by 73.7 percent, significantly more than the 56.5 percent growth in its sales. ++[colaboration] Replacing R&D with Networked Innovators | The View from Harvard Business | BNET. Last Updated Dec 4, 2007 2:04 PM EST Great companies were once known by the inventions developed in their R&D centers such as AT&T Bell Labs, IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and Xerox PARC. But in today's world, where innovators, designers, and powerful production partners are scattered across the globe, it's less important for companies to rely on home-grown products, says Harvard Business School professor Alan MacCormack and his research partners in a new working paper, Innovation through Global Collaboration: A New Source of Competitive Advantage.
Fact is, the new skill you need today is the ability to identify, coordinate, and manage a group of far-flung vendors, partners, and manufacturing resources to help you think up and create new products. Take Boeing. "In our view, Boeing's source of competitive advantage is shifting; it is less and less related to the possession of deep individual technical skills in hundreds of diverse disciplines. " © 2007 CBS Interactive Inc.. Gauging the return on R&D: Do tech giants spend too much? | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com. Tech giants are spending heavily on research and development, but it's difficult to follow the bouncing return on investment ball.
The research and development return topic was brought up by my ZDNet UK colleague Rupert Goodwins earlier this week. Rupert went on a tour of Microsoft Research in Cambridge and questioned whether R&D was the best use of the software giant's cash. The post also spurred a rebuttal. And in February Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer defended Microsoft's R&D spending and outlined the company's big bets. Ballmer said the time to invest is during a downturn. "We certainly invest in research and the incubation of new technologies, and new ideas, and then unfortunately every company has got a corporate overhead and G&A associated with it that we invest in," said Ballmer.
Rupert isn't so sure. Rupert was looking for something tangible. Gallery (right): What's brewing inside Microsoft Research? Why? You can certainly question Microsoft's approach. Tracking returns Reading list: Federation of American Scientists :: Browse by Program. Semantics Incorporated: Tying Web 3.0, the Semantic Web and Linked Data Together --- Part 1/3: Web 3.0 Will Not Solve Information Overload | Twine. 10 non-monetary benefits to attract and retain top developers | 10 Things | TechRepublic.com. Stepping into a leadership vacuum shows initiative.
Mega Media Apps: A Huge Challenge for Web 3.0. Apr 13 2009 3:27AM GMT Posted by: Roger King 3D animation, 3D modeling, blob data, codecs, continuous data, Maya, media applications, Video, video containers, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, web applications What Are Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 Apps? In our continuing series on Web 2.0/3.0 and Semantic Web technology, we’ve discussed one particularly impressive Web 2.0 app: Evernote. But, as cleverly engineered as it is, and as useful as it is, Evernote is still a very simple application. Let’s consider one of the biggest media apps out there: Maya, the high-end 3D application that is widely used to make full length animated movies. What’s the big problem? 3D Geometry: Just How Big Is It? Well, the problem is not the complex geometric models that an application like Maya must store and manipulate. 3D animation applications like Maya tend to support multiple ways of creating 3D shapes, and they do indeed tend to be very data-intensive.
The Killer Problem: Video. The problem? Video is the killer. That’s it. Semantic Web Shopping - a “how to” for the immediate future - Part 1 | Headup - The Semantic Web browser add-on. Although opinions about scope and scheduling tend to vary most experts agree that the transformation of “The Web” in to “The Semantic Web” is only a matter of time. Based on the experience from the last major upheaval – the transition to “Web 2.0”, it’s safe to assume that regardless of the details, the transition will be a gradual one. This will be a process of Evolution rather than Revolution. Change is coming (image by Maria Reyes-McDavis) When will it begin? One need only observe the steady increase over the past two years in the amount of enterprises and services focused on the Semantic Web space to realize that the process is already well under way.
Advances in web technology instigate social change One of the lessons to be learned from the last transition the Web went through is that advances in web technology are powerful instigators for social adaptations and cultural evolution: Blogging Online social networking Crowd sourcing Buying online today Impulse buys Planned purchases. Symposium Nova Spivack. CMSWire.com Media Kit for advertisers.
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However despite the brief respite we got from the cold war after the break-up of the Soviet Union, in which we almost cheerfully got to focus our terror on lesser catastrophes such as biological weapons and other non-nuclear apocalyptic futures, the threat of nuclear war never really left the horizon (or at least my mental landscape). Now to compound matters we have the new and very real threat of a global catastrophe due to a variety of other environmental and climate related forces such as global warming, overpopulation, honey and bumblebee colony collapses, overfishing, and schools of Jellyfish taking over the world (sadly that last one is only half a joke).
It seems to me that the only way out is smarter humans and fast. Links: +++Seven (nasty) truths about IT spending | IT Leadership | TechRepublic.com. From Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 in the Engineering Information World - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow - White Papers, Webcasts and Case Studies - TechRepublic. Semantic Web: A Primer - White Papers, Webcasts and Case Studies - TechRepublic.
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Silverlight: Microsoft Set to Mix It Up in RIA Delivery. [for fun] Joe Strazzere - All Things Quality - Announcing Twitchr - The ... ++++++Augmented Times: Tim O'Reilly on Recognition, RFID and Web 3.0. Blue Lobster Art and Design » How Web 3.0 Will Work :: Web Design, Graphic Design and Illustration :: Sacramento, CA. +HowStuffWorks "How Semantic Web Works" Articles. Ontology. Web Mission · » Home. With All This Openness Where Is The Destination. ++Digital Signals: Semantic web - The foundations.
Today's World-Wide Web. ++Semantic Demo Session - Palo Alto Semantic Web (PAWS) Group (Palo Alto, CA) - Meetup.com. “The Web of Data and Personal Information” Cosmic LOVE with Christopher Rudy. White Paper on Web 3.0. Semantic Web 3.0 (SemanticWeb30) Search: web 3.0. Empowering people through Web 3.0 + Gen Y + m-governance | The Kaufmann Governance Post.
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