Saturday, 1 November 2008

20 Web 3.0

Second Life. An interesting educational application of second Life was explained to me by an RMIT IT instructor. William Angliss uses Second Life for bar tending students. They practice cocktails in Second Life until they get the right mix of flavours, colours and appearances. When they have achieved mastery in the virtual world they get to play with the real things, thus avoiding costly waste of supplies.

Definition of Web 3.0 by Robert O’Brien:
Web 1.0: Centralized Them.
Web 2.0: Distributed Us.
Web 3.0: Decentralized Me.

Web Guided by Common Sense
Entrepreneurs' "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,... with machines doing the thinking instead of simply following commands."

An Introduction to Web 3.0
"With Web 3.0, machines will be able to perform tasks requiring human intelligence, reducing our time and effort on the Internet dramatically.
Web 3.0 is a precursor to the fully semantic Web"
Is the following sentence grammatically correct? Web 3.0 contributes extremely to the development of the current Internet.

ZCubes "is a web platform where you can seamlessly create web pages when you browse, create drawings, paintings, documents and spreadsheets, all on the web, without having to switch between different applications."

ZCubes "transforms Web from a network of separately siloed applications and content repositories to a more seamless and interoperable whole. Documents created using ZCubes are Semantic enabled, thus taking a step forward to the Semantic Web".


Information gleaned on the internet indicates that much effort is being deployed towards developing web 3.0. It may take time and some set backs but why doubt that it will eventually come to be? Zcubes is a platform with multiple applications, unlike the different systems looked at for the 21 lunges programme, requiring a multiplicity of membership and logins.

1 comment:

Petrina said...

"Is the following sentence grammatically correct? Web 3.0 contributes extremely to the development of the current Internet." No I wouldn't use the word 'extremely' in that context.
Zcubes sounds very interesting. I'm sure the semantic web will happen, but it may take longer than we expect.