Oh my god! Web 2.0? More like Bubble 2.0!" Okay, good start. But to really intimidate non-geeks and show how you're so over Web 2.0 (as proved by the five parody logos you uploaded on Flickr and auto-inserted into your blog), you need to b
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The Role of Semantic Web in Web 2.0: Partner or Follower? Currently, the web phenomenon that is driving the best developers and captivating the best entrepreneurs is Web 2.0. Web 2.0 encompasses some of today's most exciting web-based applications: mas
Data on the Semantic Web is semi-structured and does not follow one fixed schema. Faceted browsing is a natural technique for navigating such data, partitioning the information space into orthogonal conceptual dimensions. Current faceted interfaces are ma
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"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
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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
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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
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