October 29th, 2007 — Web 3.0
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.
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October 25th, 2007 — Web 2.0, Web 3.0
A microformat is a data formating approach that allows a developer make information that is intended for an end user to be read by software also.
An example would be a contact information found in a web page. A developer can use a contact microformat to put that information on the page so that humans and softwares can read it.
<div class=“vcard”>
<div class=“fn”>Kenney Jacob</div>
<div class=“org”>Mobme Wireless Solutions</div>
<div class=“tel”>+919846831128</div>
<a class=“url” href=“http://www.kenneyjacob.com”>http://www.kenneyjacob.com/</a>
</div>
What you are seeing above is a Vcard microformat. Many such formats are available to present various kinds of information like contacts, calenders, reviews etc.
Microformats allows a machine read them and make sense out of that information.
So Is microformats the gateway to web 3.0, the semantic web.
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October 25th, 2007 — Web 2.0, Web 3.0
Semantic web is considered the next big thing on the internet and its also called Web 3.0. Its an extension of the WWW where the web content can be expressed not only in natural language but also in formats that can be read and understood by machines. This will allow better search crawls and organization of information.
Tagging which is an essential part of web 2.0 can be considered as a light weight form of Web 3.0 Tags allows a broad classification of data, and these tags are machine readable also. The number of <em> </em> tags around a keyword emphazies on the importance of that keyword according a parameter that is set by the programmer.
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September 7th, 2007 — Uncategorized
Sometimes Gmail becomes an addiction. I myself was a Gmail addict. Gmail, built in feed reader and a lot of feeds can eat up all your time. There were times when I used to wake up in the morning and spend the whole day reading mails, replying to them and then reading feeds. Leaving unread feeds in my reader was a very hard thing to do.
Feeds are good, but when they start becoming addictive, then its time to delete some of the feeds. Recently I deleted around 10 feeds from my reader. Those feeds were useful, but not enough useful compared to the time I spent for the feeds.
In the future internet will face the same problem, information overload. Too much information coming to you, and you find it difficult to distinguish from the useful and the useless. Lets hope web 3.0 will bring some solution to this problem.
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