Is web 3.0 coming?
October 25, 2007 | In cmb-web.co.uk, Development | No CommentsI’ve not posted here for a while now, which is probably the biggest sin of the blogging world. But then this was never designed to be a view into my life, more a collection of professional comments from my work life.
I’ve returned as I now have a comment which is partly from my work life and partly my own life. I’ve just been looking at AdaptiveBlue, which is apparantly a ‘web 3.0′ technology (if technology is the right word here). This is web 3.0 in terms of the semantic web, i.e. providing contextual information based on the semantics of the content.
AdaptiveBlue provides a contextual link next to your own hyperlinks that provides extended information on that link. Examples are things such as films and book, where it will provide you with links to Amazon or reviews etc.
It is interesting and a good tool. My reason for mentioning it is my perception of how quickly people are moving past web 2.0, which as far as I know still has not landed with that big a thump, and into web 3.0. It is difficult to include new technologies in web sites as people do not want them, they do not understand or percieve the benefit. This is changing, and I’m leading our company into web 2.0 through increasing use of more interactive web sites that provide a more desktop style user experience.
I wonder if the web 3.0 thing that is starting to emerge is people trying to be the one to define the ‘next big thing’ and thus make a name for themselves amongst the techy?
Who knows.