Will WEB 3.0 Grow or Fade?
| Posted by: Suzanne James |
This topic has been debated for a couple years. Most webmasters still do not understand exactly what Web 3.0 is. I chatted with Mark Whitbeck, a new breed of webmaster who is blending SEO and web design.
Some current applications include FOAF, Friend of a Friend scripts. These are user generated, and describe a person, so that other people with the same information. This uses Web Ontology Language (OWL) to create a push-technology.
“Most websites today use pull technology. They wait for a request and the server responds when a request is received. Services that use push technology today are instant messaging/chat, peer-to-peer file sharing, online gaming, etc. They “push” the information out based on stored user preferences. It doesn’t wait for future requests once the preferences are filled out. If the criteria is met, it sends the information out all on its own.” Mark Whitbeck.
Do you see any way that we could use it in our firm?
“Honestly, I think it’s taken so long to adopt because it could be viewed as a form of spam. Look what has happened when advertisers started using pop-up and pop-under advertising. Now pop-up blockers are incorporated into browsers themselves. Used wisely, it could be a good resource for business and data exchange. Search also might be used less, since you’re essentially hanging a sign out to the world like a WANTED ads. Searches would automatically come to you instead.
But, like I said earlier, it opens the door to abuse. Oh, and on the search issue, I don’t think Google or the other search engines would be to happy about that. I’m sure they probably have something to do with slow adoption of the technology. After all, there’s a lot of money at stake for the Big G.
Do you see web 3.0 as ‘artificial intelligence’
“Absolutely. Same thing as “semantic web.” Just a matter of semantics. You have the makings of it already with online games like “Second Life.” Employers even recruit employees there!
There are AI scripts that run behind the scenes, but people can still create and customize their own experiences.” Mark Witbeck
This clip from a two-hour chat we had confirms in our mind that Web 3.0 will grow. Whether supported by the search engines, or in open source. The foundation is already here, it will just take time to implement.
September 5th, 2008 at 12:12 am
I think web 3.0 is a good in theory however it is a totally different end-user experience. When surfing the web most users do not like information being pushed on them. can also be abused for very overaggressive advertising.
September 16th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
I am not sure what it is? It looks like a PC based search engine browser bar with applications that the end-user controls. I am not sure I want a search engine controlling my content. The Advertising world varies. I don’t want my content limited by the apps used in my personal life.
There are other things that I want to know. The most important, no one seems to have an answer for. Will my #1 search position for a keyword appear #1 for everyone, or depending on a person’s PC apps, controlled by a search engine, will this fluctuate. Will this give them more power to control content? I think it will be a bad thing for he internet.
September 16th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
John@ You are right, it will be totally different and I agree that it will be abused by the corporations with the money needed to aggressively advertise.
I think that we are being feed a bunch of PR and that Web 3.0 will turn out to be (as Virtual World) put it, nothing more than a way for the search engines to steal back the control users usurped with Web2.0.