nada & web & commentary & copyright Sara on 13 Nov 2006 09:52 pm
Web 3.0? Sad attempt at rebranding?
This week the NYTimes published an article touting the semantic web as the “Web3.0.” I found it to be rather sad that such a term has now been entered into the web lexicon. Hell, I think the term Web2.0 is sad also, but it seems to have stuck - but for better reasons, it has provided us with concrete examples of catchy, glizty applications - fun for the whole family. What is next? A re-branding of “the Grid” as Web4.0?
As far as I can tell, Web3.0 is simply the semantic web - an abstract concept that has been floating around in academia and at the international organizational levels of places like CERN and WIPO for years. I have yet to see any truly useful applications using some of the techniques. I hope that someday that search technologies will evolve to the point that an appropriate response to the query: “I’m looking for a warm place to vacation and I have a budget of $3,000. Oh, and I have an 11-year-old child.” can be had. But I think it will take much more than the semantic web to do so. It would need to break the information down into data. That data would have to be comparable and consistent (otherwise we are talking about alot of manipulation of the data). The data would have to be available - ie, in the public domain, or not proprietary or made available through some sort of open copyright. Once we can compare data reliably, we might then hope to overlay the semantic web methodologies to the associated text-based content.
For the record, I would like to also be able to answer, just for fun, questions like: Do sports outcomes affect the stock market? Can presidential elections be predicted by polling data in one rural area? Do airplane flight patterns have an influence our health? Do tides or sonar testing cause whales to beach themselves?
The web should evolve to have better products and services, but why the need to give it a version number as if it has planned releases owned by GiagantaWeb Co.? It is, after all, for all of us - at least for now. So, what is wrong with just “the Web?” Or am I being stodgy again?
on 13 Nov 2006 at 10:25 pm 1.mark said …
The time listed at the top is 9:52PM. It’s 5r:24 PM here. Must be GMT.
on 14 Nov 2006 at 4:26 am 2.Sara said …
I haven’t found how to change that yet! Maybe something to do with it reading the time from the server hosted by my provider, not the machine I use to post.
on 14 Nov 2006 at 12:54 pm 3.Ryan said …
Try here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Formatting_Date_and_Time
on 14 Nov 2006 at 12:57 pm 4.jen beyt said …
stodgy… definitely stodgy.
on 14 Nov 2006 at 3:21 pm 5.Ryan said …
Stodgy or dodgy? I always get those two mixed up.
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