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Web 2.0 NYC Conference (Web20NY.com)June 14, 2007

Web 3.0 – Where Are We Headed?

David TetenPartner, ff Venture Capitalffventure.comblog: teten.com@dtetenNew York, NYinfo@teten.com

with research assistance from Sutithi Chakraborty

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The Web has Come a Long Way…Parameters Web 1.0

(Read)Web 2.0

(Read-Write)Web 3.0

(Read-Write- Execute)

Governance Top down Bottoms up ?

Communication People to Machine Machine to machine and People to People

Machine to People

Information Discovery Search and Browse Publish and Subscribe Info Discovers itself

Information Retrieval Transactional Relationships Seeks you out

Information Aggregation Portal, Commercial Aggregators

Micro-Aggregation Universal Tagging

Marketing, Selling Push, Contextual Conversational, Personal ?

Content Control Publishers, Aggregators Content Authors Content itself

Content Structure Documents, Pages Tagged Objects Information cloud

Applications Closed, Proprietary Open, Standard-based ?

Technology HTML, Solaris, Oracle XML, AJAX, RSS, PHP, MySQL, XQuery

?

First 2 columns from: “Web 2.0 the Living Web and Putting “We” in the Web”, Bebo White, University of San Francisco)

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What is Web 3.0?...Possible Ideas…

Semantic Web

Intelligent Web

The Web as a database

The Web + artificial intelligence

3D Web The Web as a space

Image sourced from: www.agiri.org

Web-Enabled Space

Space as a Web

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Semantic Web

A Developers’ Web:

APIs (Amazon Web Services)

Mashups (Yahoo! Pipes)

Image sourced from: www.HousingMaps.com

A website that announces a conference immediately transfers the time and date of the conference to the user’s electronic calendar. The location — address, latitude, longitude, perhaps even altitude — could be sent to the user’s GPS device, and the names and biographies of others invited could be sent to an instant messenger list.

(Tim Berners-Lee, Source: International Herald Tribune, May 24, 2006)

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An Intelligent Web

A hotel application "understands” concepts, such as room temperature, bed comfort, and hotel price, and can distinguish between concepts, such as “great”, “almost great”, and “mostly OK” to provide useful direct answers (A Web 3.0 demonstration project, OPINE: courtesy University of Washington. Source: The New York Times, November 12, 2006)

“No keywords” Search: Searching for media with media (Examples: Like.com [image], Polar Rose [image], Pandora [music]

(Source: PC Mag, April 14, 2007)

Images sourced from

: PC

Mag, A

pril 14, 2007

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Search for a Hotel in Seattle through OPINE…Source: Know

ItAll, W

ashington University

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OPINE Suggests “The Sorrento” with Complete Review Summary…Source: Know

ItAll, W

ashington University

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Intelligent Web: Visual Search …Like.comIm

age sourced from: P

C M

ag, April 14, 2007

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The Web as a Space

A 3D Web

Taking a virtual stroll through a 3D Gap store, interacting with the staff, and trying out virtual garments

Traveling to a foreign city and walking through its streets

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Space as a Web

Read Write—Unplugged “Easier, cheaper, and more pervasive”

Traffic information downlinked to your car GPS device via satellite

Payment of bills by phone (call a number or swipe your phone)

Uploading to your 'vlog' wirelessly and remotely from your small video camera

Cheap 3D printers

Source: http://www.zcorp.com/products/printersdetail-450.asp?ID=1

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Web 3.0 Fast Movers…

IT “Movers and Shakers”:→

Yahoo! and HP have invested considerably on research and adopted some Semantic Web standards

→

Google and Microsoft are working in the 3D Web domain

Web 3.0 Research Projects→

KnowItAll (University of Washington)→

Web Fountain (IBM)

Web 3.0 Startups (most are in stealth mode and/or in beta-stage)→

Radar Networks (Social Search)→

YapTA (Travel)→

Cyc (Artificial Intelligence System)→

Like.com (Visual Search)→

Pandora (Music Search)→

Polar Rose (Image Search)→

Metaweb Technologies (Web Applications)

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When?...and What next?

No fixed time frame in sight→

Experts predict we are not as far from Web 3.0 as it might seem

Next in line – Web 4.0→

Immersion indistinguishable from reality (“The Matrix”)→

The Inclusion of taste, touch and smell!→

A “Learning Web”

(Source: Google Blogoscoped)

“Web 4.0 is the impending state at which all information converges into a great ball of benevolent self-aware light, and solves every problem from world peace to why Loststinks this season. “

- Jeff Moriarty, Intel