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By: The future is webiqitous » By Elias Bizannes » Internet, Trends

The future is webiqitous » By Elias Bizannes » Internet, Trends — Mon, 18 May 2009 14:52:29 +0000

[...] recently, we’ve seen the Dot Com bubble and the web2.0 craze drive new innovations forward. But as I’ve postulated before, those eras are now over. So what’s [...]

By: Dylan

Dylan — Thu, 01 May 2008 12:47:51 +0000

I reckon websites will provide functionality.
Data will be housed within a few large networks.
These large networks will have various degrees of openness, but most of this will be shared within.
We are seeing websites as moving from (often being) a vague product to (often) being more of a service, this will be further cemented as the large networks act as platforms for more ambitious things to blossom within. The “more ambitious” aspect is related to the fact that these larger networks will have standards within themselves.
As some of the personal computer’s components become less of a necessity, browser-based/off-site internet usage/browsing/etc. can become a reality through which large entities with their own standards (and the efficiency for creation/innovation/reaction/etc. that results) and services that adhere to their guidelines/restrictions can blossom.
If that doesn’t make sense, or seems like nonsense, please accept my apology. Otherwise, cheerio!

By: SexySEO

SexySEO — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:06:36 +0000

Wow!!! Elias, attaboy your Word Exel analogy actually is much deeper than it seems as it reveals the crutial problem of semantic web namely the origin of ontologies. If ontologies are originated by authours we will have to deal with keyword stuffing version 3.0. Alternatively if ontologies are result of community effort it is stupid to believe that we’ll ever make avarage users write their texts in Exel insted of Word

By: Mick Liubinskas

Mick Liubinskas — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:17:28 +0000

Quick thoughts;

* Social networks are still a technology, not a business.
* Browsers on phones will explode mobile apps. Localisation will be tested and won.
* Data portability will become an underlying technology and people will use it like breathing.
* Peer-to-peer will finally become the norm for distribution after Joltid open source their technology.

But the big winner….

E to C collaboration – Enterprises actually engaging with their customers.

By: Elias Bizannes

Elias Bizannes — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:25:49 +0000

The semantic web is the set of technologies that structure content on the web in such a way, that they can be interpreted by computers and queried in a decentralised way. It’s structuring content in a certain way, rather than it being freeform – converting information into data that can be broken up and used in other ways. Think of a newspaper article with baseball games and weather information. If the information in that article coud be structured, that weather information could be used again in another context ie, on tennis games as well.

The semantic web is boring – it’s what you can do once you have those semantics when it gets interesting. It’s like telling people to stop using Microsoft word and to start writing articles in Excel – because that way, every word in that piece of content can be referenced.

By: SexySEO

SexySEO — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:07:57 +0000

@Elias just 1 little stupid Q What is semantic web? Your definition, pleassse

By: Elias Bizannes

Elias Bizannes — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:32:04 +0000

@SexySEO: the semantic web technology stack is RDF (to store data) and SPARQL (to query data). In effect, it using the technologies like in traditional databases (RDF’s creating structure like how tables do) and SPARQL being the query language.

So if everyone structures their data in a common way, and it’s open on the web, anyone can query that dataset like one massive database because it’s all linked as if to be one database.

@Ross: Looking forward to it! I genuinely think we are not in web3.0 of whatever territory – we are simply seeing web2.0 maturing as now the mainstream is adopting it (and enterprises especially). Any attempt to do so, as I alluded above, is by reference to the economy. After all, what distinguises the different ages in our world was by the factors of production: Agricultural age wealth was generated by land; industrial age wealth was generated by machine capital; information age wealth in generated by knowledge/human capital.

What should distinguise dot-com, from web2.0, for the “next generation” web is by monitoring how the economy progresses. It may be worth doing some analytics of investment and capital flows through the nineties and noughties, to assess this. Cultural change, as flagged by web2.0 is not only hard to measure, but subject to hype (afterall, I remember 2002 and 2003 and 2004 and 2005 and 2006 all being the year of social networking). Economic changes should be how we define these periods.

By: Ross Dawson

Ross Dawson — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:22:49 +0000

I think it makes sense, as you have, to focus on what already exists that will evolve to be central to the new landscape.

I agree with everything you’ve suggested here, though the 3D world will be augmented by haptics and gesture control. Another fundamental point, that you’ve written about elsewhere, is how the right content gets to us. While this is part of the current landscape, absolutely in the future we will expect to get the content we want without effort.

I’ll be musing more on this – it’s time to get this discussion more structured as it currently often devolves into talk of Web 3.0…

By: SexySEO

SexySEO — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:52:17 +0000

“database that can be queried…” easy to say… but WHO can do it?