Ready for Web 3.0?
According to a "Business Filter" blurb (quoted below) in this morning’s Boston Globe, The New York Times is.
Last week’s Web 2.0 conference ended with tepid reviews, and so did the term Web 2.0. John Markoff of the New York Times, put the "nail in the coffin" by writing about Web 3.0 – otherwise known as the semantic web. Web 3.0 will be about mining "meaning," rather than just data, from the web by using software to discover associations among far-flung bits of information. Imagine a world where search is smart enough to know the syntax of what you really want to know. Then imagine the creepy part – where people, marketers, etc. can easily mine meaning about you, potentially manipulating you without your knowledge or awareness.
But the NYT is eleven months behind A List Apart (a Web site "for people who make websites"), which ran this article about Web 3.0 by Jeffrey Zeldman, publisher of A List Apart, on January 16, 2006.
And citizen media guru Dan Gillmor weighed in on April 22, 2006, with this post on his (now discontinued) grassroots journalism blog.
