"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
Very cool Semantic Web use case Demo via Piggy Bank's sever component called "Semantic Bank". These complimentary projects are part of the MIT SMILE project. As you can see Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web are mutually inclusive paradigms as reemphasized
Bill Thompson's essay on The Register warns that "Web 2.0 marks the dictatorship of the presentation layer, a triumph of appearance over architecture that any good computer scientist should immediately dismiss as unsustainable." He goes on to imply tha
Web 2.0 as a concept many flaws in it, but one of these is not the “the dictatorship of the presentation layer” some claim it to be; a nice turn of phrase perhaps— but the whole fallacy starts when AJAX (one of the cornerstones of Web 2.0) is denigr
Glue is a new service by Squad that lets users publish and share content on the web using a mobile device or web browser. It allows you to upload photos, publish news and share your Glue on any website, blog, or community profile (ie: MySpace). You can lo
Cogmap is an interesting site that takes organization charts to a whole new level. Claiming itself to be the “Wikipedia of organization charts,” anyone can freely view, edit, and maintain corporate structures online. They have created an eye-catching
Create & update webpages with no skills needed. Create member databases, do group emailing, register folks for events, accept credit card payments, create members-only secure pages, grow your membership, accept donations, further your agendas...easy to u
From the start, the World Wide Web has been a vessel of quasi-religious longing...On the Internet, we're all bodiless, symbols speaking to symbols in symbols...but the net turned out to be more about commerce than consciousness...Web 2.0 doesn't care whet
"Web 2.0 marks the dictatorship of the presentation layer, a trimph of appearance over architecture...the "snakeoil" of "Ajaxified" interfaces and "apparently open APIs" threatens to distract developers and engineers from the real work of creating "distri
How do you share a generally-understood reference, not to a web service, but to a calendar event on the service? How do you index it? Google indexes pages, not services. How, indeed do you bookmark it? Hidden data means no URLs...The Internet is driven by
Does the 'hunter-gatherer' Web 2.0 paradigm represent progress or regression compared to what exists today in the enterprise? I wonder if bringing out an ancient ingrained behavior will upset the equilibrium that was achieved through tens of thousands of
“The Semantic Web is a project that intends to create a universal medium for information exchange by putting documents with computer-processable meaning (semantics) on the World Wide Web.” "Google's very broad take on Web 3.0...enables you to use you
Web 2.0, a phrase coined by O'Reilly Media in 2004, refers to a supposed second generation of Internet-based services—such as social networking sites, wikis, communication tools, and folksonomies—that emphasize online collaboration and sharing among u