For the last few weeks Ive been reading a lot about the semantic web and web 3.0. Stuff looks complicated and there are many opinions and ideas. This is what I could make out of it.
When the microformats become more and more popular specialized search will be there for such items. Everyone will publish contact information in their websites are a Vcard. So Search engines can crawl and index them.
Google might add a “Contact search” to their search button. The end result is that If someone searches for “CEO Mobme” in google contact search, Sanjays contacts information will be show up.
With the events microformats, if I search “events trivandrum today”, all the different events that are happening in trivandrum city today will show up.
Similarly all sorts of structured information can be put on the web and the semantic part of the web will take care of processing the info and making it more available and useful.
Think of all the different microformats and data that we can use and add them as comments to this post. Lets see what the collective intelligence can do.
here’s a good article written by john markoff about web 3.0 (from late 2006). i think you’ll find some interesting potential applications in there. http://tinyurl.com/365kqd
you can also imagine a time in which we have smart agents who search meta data (etc.) on our behalf and return results based on our preferences to improve certain parts of our lives as something that will likely happen with the emergence of web 3.0
Comment by devin holloway — October 29, 2007 @ 9:01 am