Web 3.0
With all the hype about Web 2.0, I think it's much more interesting about what comes next. Web 2.0 is about user participation - youtube, myspace, flickr, del.icio.us, second life, facebook, digg, wikipedia, blogs, your favorite site-name here.
One of the problems of Web 1.0 was too much information to be able to figure out how to access what you want, easily. This was somewhat solved by Google and other search engines enabling users to find things easier.
With Web 2.0, it looks like the problem will be that there are all these different user participation sites, it will be hard for people to know which sites to contribute to, or why. Or which sites to visit.
I hope that Web 3.0 somehow makes it easy for users to do everything which these various sites support, and to view / vote / tag / whatever participation you care for.
One of the problems of Web 1.0 was too much information to be able to figure out how to access what you want, easily. This was somewhat solved by Google and other search engines enabling users to find things easier.
With Web 2.0, it looks like the problem will be that there are all these different user participation sites, it will be hard for people to know which sites to contribute to, or why. Or which sites to visit.
I hope that Web 3.0 somehow makes it easy for users to do everything which these various sites support, and to view / vote / tag / whatever participation you care for.
Nice post.
One useful contributor to helping solve the problem looks to be OpenID. I have way too many silly logins for each of these services.
The other is that each of these services need to export the metadata in a clearly universally understandeable way, so that they can play nicely with each other. This is where the Semantic Web starts playing a role.
Posted by Henry Story on February 27, 2007 at 09:05 PM PST #
Posted by The Sun BabelFish Blog on February 27, 2007 at 10:47 PM PST #