What Web 3.0 Holds For Bloggers
July 23, 2007
Notice these icons to your left? If you don’t you’ve probably been living under a rock since 1999. Yes, Web 2.0 is all the rage right now, especially with blogs like TechCrunch making a living off the incessant number of new internet ventures springing up all over the world. But the question begs, what is the next intuitive step to evolution of the internet? But more importantly for you and I, what will be our place as bloggers, in this web of the not-so-distant future?
Web 3.0, known as the semantics web promises to ‘humanize’ our computing experience. Natural language search will mean less SEO for you, and more targeted traffic. Think relationships, not only between blogs of similar niches, but between the very platform your blogging infrastructure operates on.
While I think it’s great that everything is going to be even more interconnected than it is today, proper implementation of Web 3.0 technology might end up doubling the work for you and I as bloggers.
The future is surely uncertain at this point, but it’s in our interests to keep on top of the coming revolution. A freely downloadable tool is the new plug-in to Firefox, Piggy Bank. Piggy Bank works by extracting or translating web scripts into RDF information and storing this information on the user’s computer. This information can then be retrieved independently of the original context and used in other contexts, for example by using Google Maps to display information. Piggy Bank works with a new service, Semantic Bank, which combines the idea of tagging information with the new web languages. Piggy Bank was developed by the Simile Project, which also provides RDFizers, tools that can be used to translate specific types of information, for example weather reports for US zip codes, into RDF. Efforts like these could ease a potentially troublesome transition between the web of today and its semantic successor.
Until then, long live the web 2.0 bandwagon!
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July 24th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
I was looking for some link you have mentioned for the downloadable tool,
Instead i landed in wikipedia.
Despite knowing 2.0, I still don have much of a clue on what is web 3.0
Can up put up more stuff from the first paragraph?
It just says “natural language search” and relationships.
A link would be appreciated.
July 24th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
Hey Bharadwaj - I’ll surely follow up on the post to make things a bit clearer. By the way, try out the piggy bank tool (it’s a direct download from MIT). Cheers - Dev