Information is stuck inside HTML pages, formatted in esoteric ways, difficult for machines to process. "Web 3.0", precursor to a refined semantic web, will change this. ‘Web 3.0′ will transform web sites into web services. Unstructured information bec
MindMeister brings the concept of mind mapping to the web, using its facilities for real-time collaboration to allow truly global brainstorming sessions. Real-time, synchronous sessions across the web.
“The semantic web will do for data what the web did for documents,” Spivack says. “It will make it universally searchable and sharable.” The standard way to organize and present data on the semantic web is described by the Resource Description Fr
"People keep asking what Web 3.0 is. I think maybe when you've got an overlay of scalable vector graphics - everything rippling and folding and looking misty...integrated across a huge space of data..." Web 3.0 is a term that has been coined to describe
Innovation in making data relevant to the one or two words that we type into a search engine is Web 2.0. Adding to the plethora of data is the advent of social networking, Ajax; shared apps across the back end internet cloud, there are already frameworks
Some small teams of sharp, self-directed people are quickly creating sleeker stuff that works far better than the overly complex webapps produced by huge teams and gargantuan cost - with microscopic usability on behalf of clients with hazy goals.
"Many people have told me this week that they think 'Web 2.0' has not been very impressive so far and that they really hope for a next-generation of the Web with some more significant innovation under the hood -- regardless of what it's called. A lot of p
This post is part contribution to the general Web 3.0 / Data-Web / Semantic Web discourse, and part experiment / demonstration of the Data Web. I came across a pretty deep comments trail about the aforementioned items on Fred Wilson's blog (aptly title
Wow -- there has been quite a firestorm over the term Web 3.0 on the blogosphere today and yesterday...We might define Web 3.0 as "Web 3.0, a phrase coined by John Markoff of the New York Times in 2006, refers to a supposed third generation of Internet-ba
John Markoff's New York Times article discusses the term "Web 3.0" and equates it with the next evolution of the Web...While we probably don't need another label -- I would at least say that "Web 3.0" is less intimidating than the term "Semantic Web" to m
The power of connections: if you know my favorites sites and favorite people, you can build a heat map of my web, and predict the things I'm most likely to respond to with real attention. But this requires a web that's a relational database, and not a col
Lexical ambiguity arises when context is insufficient to determine the sense of a single word that has more than one meaning. Syntactic ambiguity arises when a sentence can be parsed in more than one way. Semantic ambiguity arises when a word or concept
Currently, web content is based largely on documents written in HTML, a hypertext markup language coding a body of text that's interspersed with other media (like images, or forms). HTML has limited ability to classify sections of text on a web page so th
Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards...Semantic markup is valuable because it allows us to build smart tools for consuming information...