Web 3.0 = Semantics?
Diverse perspectives are appearing on as to what will be the next avatar of web 2.0
Invariably though there appears to be convergence on the fact that "semantics" will form the backbone of the Web 3.0
Recent announcements in terms of radical innovations on the web beyond the web 2.0 phenomenon, seem to indicate the role of semantics as a key technology for heralding of the next generation web - web 3.0.
Recent announcement by IBM and BBC of a video search system, See http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2025493,00.html , is essentially based on the idea of semantics, which they term as Web 3.0
Even the WikiPedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_3 of Web 3.0 talks of leveraging semantic web for 3-dimensional collaboration..
I think there is enormous possibility for leveraging technology research done in areas of text databases, artificial intelligence, databases and information retrieval, which were so far in the realms of academic circles. It is now the turn of Web 3.0 to help leverage the unexplored corpora in these areas to usher in limitless innovation..
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I'm really skeptical about web3.0. I even have doubts on web2.0 for its unique business models, which I feel are better suited as merged with current applications. A lot of RIA and collaboration specially in wiki is good. The real thrust which web2.0 can give to the internet is to reach people who have not made to it yet.
But where does web3.0 go? Is it about restructuring the web itself? Or its data? Or does it look like a universal mashup, where things tie up with each other based on their content, their meaning? Does it look like Yahoo Answers! I wrote a blog on it: http://sbharti.blogspot.com/2006/11/answersyahoocom-is-it-web20-web30-or.html
Posted by: Shaurabh Bharti | October 7, 2007 09:46 PM