Showing posts with label Semantic Web. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Semantic Web. Show all posts

Friday, July 16, 2010

Google's Metaweb Acquisition



This video above explains it better than the blog posts below. Metaweb is about barcoding the internet so it becomes easier to search stuff online. No wonder Google came knocking. This is also a great example of innovation happening outside a big company in a startup. If you are a big company, when you can't do it yourself, you can sometimes make up for it by being on a constant lookout, like a frog and fireflies.

TechCrunch: Google Acquires Metaweb To Make Search Smarter
Metaweb develops both semantic data storage infrastructure for the web, and Freebase,an “open, shared database of the world’s knowledge”. Freebase is a massive, collaboratively edited database of cross-linked data. The idea behind the product is to create a system for building the semantic web. Freebase allows anyone to contribute, structure, search, copy and use data.
The Official Google Blog: Deeper Understanding With Metaweb
we’ve acquired Metaweb, a company that maintains an open database of things in the world. Working together we want to improve search and make the web richer and more meaningful for everyone. .... we’re also excited about the possibilities for Freebase, Metaweb’s free and open database of over 12 million things, including movies, books, TV shows, celebrities, locations, companies and more. Google and Metaweb plan to maintain Freebase as a free and open database for the world.
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Friday, April 06, 2007

A Web 3.0 Manifesto


Web 3.0: When Geography Is 100% Irrelevant

This is not just about taking the web experience to a new level, this is also about the human mass on the web. That mass has to be near total. And that can not be on and off. So wires are going haywire. And slow does not count. So that is universal, wireless broadband. You don't wait for the rest of the world to get rich. You focus on the mindspace as a business space. Mindspace is mindspace regardless of the income bracket of the person. Every additional mind connected to the web adds value.

So when you have almost everyone online at zip speed, that is something. And then you also focus on the web experience. That experience goes beyond the two dimensions we have today. That part need not go universal right away. Meeting someone online has almost to be like meeting in person. That is what geography being irrelevant means. It does not mean that even though you are 10,000 miles away, I can still email you, chat with you. It means you get transported to me.



Geography being irrelevant also means the web experience should not have to be a strain on your body, not on your spine, not on your eyes, not on your wrist. You are looking at much, much better screens, screens as good as paper. You are looking at standing up, walking around experiences. You are looking at complex voice commands, as in, no need to type all the time. You are looking at near similar experiences for the physically challenged, the audiovisually impaired.

Web 3.0 does not just pertain to software applications. It pertains to connection, software and hardware. It pertains to the digital divide. A web that does not have a near total human mass is not really a web. Because the web is about humanity, not technology. Technology merely facilitates.

One constant will remain. There will never be enough of two things on the web: content and search. The possibilities are as limitless as the human mind itself. We are back to all becoming farmers. The vast majority of us can go into the business of producing and consuming mindfood.

Or maybe it is two stages, Web 3.0 and Web 4.0. Or maybe it is three stages, Web 3.0 and Web 4.0 and Web 5.0. But the future is now. Entrepreneuers playing with technology and capital can break all barriers to make it happen. It is mostly about creating things that never existed before. And so there is little competition, much win win situations for most. It is to be largely a creative endeavor.

This is to launch a new millenium. The future is now.

On The Web

A List Apart: Articles: Web 3.0
Entrepreneurs See a Web Guided by Common Sense - New York Times
» What to expect from Web 3.0 | Software as services | ZDNet.com
Web 3.0
Web 3.0: Web 3.0 - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet!
Web 3.0
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Welcome Web 3.0!
Semantic Web - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dan Gillmor on Grassroots Journalism, Etc.: Web 2.0? Try 3.0
Web 3.0? - Download Squad
Web 3.0 - Features by PC Magazine
A 'more revolutionary' Web - Technology - International Herald Tribune
Web 3.0: When Web Sites Become Web Services
Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS)
Wikipedia 3.0: The End of Google? « Evolving Trends
Web 3.0: Basic Concepts « Evolving Trends
Sramana Mitra on Strategy » Blog Archive » Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS)
Web 3.0 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Web 3.0?
iZachy - blogging to web 3.0 and beyond
Minding the Planet: Web 3.0 Versus Web 2.0
Web 3.0? » The Bivings Report
Entrepreneurs See a Web Guided by Common Sense - New York Times
» Web 2.0 isn’t dead, but Web 3.0 is bubbling up | Between the ...
LE WEB 3
KurzweilAI.net
Technology Review: Part I: A Smarter Web
Nick Bradbury: Web 3.0 Does Not Validate
O'Reilly Radar > Web 3.0? Maybe when we get there.
Airbag - Kirken.
It's Web 3.0! (Scripting News)
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Freebase: the Web 3.0 machine
Web 3.0: From Web Site to Web Service
Can 'Spiritual Computing' Drive Web 3.0?
Web 3.0 @ WEB 2.0 JOURNAL
Idea for Web 3.0 Site
BBC and IBM strike 'web 3.0' deal | Technology | Guardian ...
Ready for Web 3.0? - Entrepreneur.com - MSNBC.com
SitePoint Blogs » Are You Ready For Web 3.0?
Standards.za.net » » Web 3.0
Web 3.0 - Semantische Technologien, Web 2.0, Social Software ...
Edge Perspectives with John Hagel: Ready for Web 3.0?
Crunchgear: Introducing Web 3.0? More Like Stupid.0 - Gizmodo
OSWeekly.com - The Future of Web 3.0: Part I
Minding the Planet: Web 3.0 Roundup: Radar Networks, Powerset ...
Web 3.0
FredCavazza.net : Toward a web 3.0?
Micro Persuasion: Web 3.0 and the Widgetized Web
Enterprise Resilience Management Blog: Web 3.0
Elias Torres » Blog Archive » Is Web 3.0 coming?
The Fishbowl: Digital Identity
How Web 2.0 Mashups Fuel Web 3.0/ Semantic Web
Digg - Web 3.0: When Web Sites Become Web Services
HipHipUK » Blog Archive » Le Web 3.0
NewsForge | The Future of Web 3.0: Part II
Web 2.0 Summit - November 7-9, 2006 - San Francisco, CA ...
Die Zukunft im Web 3.0 - Eine Vision | Dr. Web Weblog
A List Apart: Comments: Web 3.0
Wilbur-and-O: Microformats, Web 3.0, etc.
Web 3.0: Google as the Web : SEO Book.com
Technology Review: What Comes After Web 2.0?
Web 3.0 : tdaxp
Web 3.0 Survives The Wrath Of Wikipedians - Technology News by ...
Nodalities
Web 3.0: The Other Semantic Web - Features by PC Magazine
Web 3.0: When Web Sites Become Web Services
Scott's "SiteExperts" Place: Start.com: A Preview of Web 3.0
Blogger Indonesia A. Fatih Syuhud Weblog: Web 3.0 after Web 2.0?
Free Coffee From Yahoo? | Defining Web 3.0 | Trynt: Misc. APIs ...
HR-XML blog » Web 3.0
Web 3.0: A Smarter, Spookier Internet » Silicon Valley Blog About ...
QTSaver: Web 3.0
UserFriendly Strip Comments
Web 3.0: for the user, by the user, of the user
hyku | blog - Web 2.0? My Money is on Web 2.1 or Web 3.0 - by ...
Nodalities
Vers un web 3.0 ? on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Evolution of the Species: Web 3.0
Web 3.0 and SEO
Techmeme: Web 3.0 Does Not Validate (Nick Bradbury)
Sramana Mitra on Strategy » Blog Archive » Web 3.0 and CNN Money
PERSONALIZE MEDIA » Blog Archive » Virtual Worlds, Web 3.0 and ...
Web 3.0 map on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
iia blog » The Semantic Web: Web 3.0?
Ross Mayfield's Weblog: There is no Web 3.0, part, uh, 2
web30: See what people are saying right now on Technorati
Talking with Talis: Nova Spivack talks with Talis about Web 3.0 ...
Web 2.0 is mass market, Web 3.0 is the transformation of ...
EirePreneur: How Feed Grazing fits into Web 3.0
Second Life Education Research » Blog Archive » Response to ...
Why there will never be a Web 3.0 | Canadian Marketing Blog ...
Development center for HHG and Adaxas
Glass House
Geeking with Greg: AI and "Web 3.0"
Web-3.0 - the new and better webdevelopment standard
OSWeekly.com - The Future of Web 3.0: Part II
Mobile Opportunity: Web 3.0
Web 3.0 AI Commonsense - part 2
mSpace: web 2.0 meets web 3.0 meets iTunes
Techmeme: Web 3.0: When Web Sites Become Web Services (Alex Iskold ...

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