26/12/09

Future 10 absolutely true web predictions for 2010 (with money back guarantee)

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• In 2010 book publishers will share the digital joy/pain with their music counterparts
• In 2010 traditional media will continue to blame the web of all evils of our society
• In 2010 a (not so) major global event will bring Twitter servers down
• In 2010 a new technology/platform/business model that nobody predicted in 2009 will emerge
• In 2010 new buzzwords that will only last one Tweet will be created
• In 2010 Tim O’Reilly will add yet another mathematical label to the word Web (2.0, squared, pi, gamma, you name it)
• In 2010 marketers will still look for a model to monetize the power of social media
• In 2010 there will be predictions for how the web will be in 2011
• In 2010 nobody will review the predictions they made in 2009
• In 2010 the world will not end (nor will in 2012 and nor should you watch the movie)

19/01/08

Tim Berners-Lee on the Semantic Web (video)

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The data web, like the document web involves standards as HTML, Cascading Style Sheets and so on, all this things were enabled by royalty free standards. The same on the data web.

What if you wanted to meet a friend for coffee at the best café next to her house?

Well, even if you had your friend’s address on Gmail, tagged the best cafés in the City in del.icio.us and made your GPS position available to an online web service, there’s no way you could get the right café straight away as technology stands right now.

All the information needed to find the perfect coffee is available online and available but not very usable. You could still pull it off after a few clicks and searches on your internet enabled mobile device but this is not the point.

The cool thing would be that some algorithm (AI?) cross-referenced the data and produced the right answer at the right moment and this is where the Semantic Web or Intelligent Web comes to rescue.

Think of what you could achieve by cross-referencing air-traffic information and nutrition patterns when triying to stop the spreading of a disease.

Learn all about it in this excellent Tim Berners-Lee video.

All about the Semantic Web in this 2006 article by Nigel Shadbolt and Tim Berners-Lee (PDF)