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November 13, 2006
What comes after Web 2.0?
If Web 2.0 was all about seamlessly connecting applications over the Internet, then Web 3.0 (aka "the semantic Web") will most likely be all about adding an increased layer of meaning and intelligence to the Internet. In Sunday's New York Times, John Markoff suggests that the much-hyped Web 2.0 may already be giving way to Web 3.0:
"From the billions of documents that form the World Wide Web and the links that weave them together, computer scientists and a growing collection of start-up companies are finding new ways to mine human intelligence.
Their goal is to add a layer of meaning on top of the existing Web that would make it less of a catalog and more of a guide — and even provide the foundation for systems that can reason in a human fashion. That level of artificial intelligence, with machines doing the thinking instead of simply following commands, has eluded researchers for more than half a century.
Referred to as Web 3.0, the effort is in its infancy, and the very idea has given rise to skeptics who have called it an unobtainable vision. But the underlying technologies are rapidly gaining adherents, at big companies like I.B.M. and Google as well as small ones. Their projects often center on simple, practical uses, from producing vacation recommendations to predicting the next hit song."
If the semantic web becomes a reality, look for companies to develop search engines like Swoogle ("semantic web search")...
[image: Dan Cooney's Simplicity of the Semantic Web]
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