On the Internet democracy has established itself as the main engine of commercial success: Successful website are and have always been democratic: YouTube, Myspace, eBay, Amazon, facebook… Net neutrality finally prevailed var infolink_pid = 63535; var infolink_wsid = 0; YouTube’s traffic passed Microsoft’s corporate website. Lately even The New York Times surrendered to social news. Symbolically, [...]
Archive for the ‘Web 3.0’ Category
27 Jan
Web 3.0: You Say You’re on an Revolution?
Web 1.0 started as a streaming publish-to-read medium; web 2.0 has established itself as a publishing platform for everyone. Now web 3.0 is said to be a technologically advanced Internet, where the user executes and the machines do the thinking. Nice try. But at this point it’s not the technology that needs to be improved. [...]
27 Jan
Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS) + Place
Yes, we need to add a new variable to the definition of Web 3.0, and that variable isPlace. Imagine. You are on a business trip in New York, and you need to buy a gift for your 13 year old son. You need a Size 8 Nike Air Zoom, and you have exactly 30 minutes before [...]
27 Jan
Web 3.0 & the Semantic Web
My definition of Web 3.0 is one of the most popular entry points into this blog. In it, I proposed the vision of a web which becomes increasingly verticalized by “Context”, and the relevant Content, Community and Commerce elements are successfully mashed up “in Context”. I also proposed 2 other elements: Vertical / Contextual Search, [...]
27 Jan
What Would Web 3.0 Look Like?
The hottest topic for all geeks around the globe is just talking about technology. They are always excited in their own persona. When it comes to Web 3.0, experts have distributed predictions for its structure. Today I am going to present my image of Web 3.0 which is entirely dependent on technical updates from magazines and Videocasts [...]
27 Jan
Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS)
I have written a few pieces already addressing the disjointed nature of the web, whereby, you go one place for content, another for community, and a third for commerce, the most notable of these is the popular, 4C: Yahoo’s Turnaround Formula. Let’s quickly recap the terminology: 3C = Content, Commerce, Community | 4th C = Context [...]
