Both Web 3.0 and the semantic web look to personalize the web. They also look at improving the usability of the web to enable easy navigation to the particular areas you are looking for. As we are now in Web 2.0, web 3.0 is seen to be an ‘improvement’ and is also seen to be the future. Web 2.0 seem to concentrate on the notion of interfacing, social networking sites and other mainstream ideas.
The semantic web is far more specific as a means of wanting you to access information quickly and effectively. This particular part of the web is also an individual product which could in the furture be added or encorporated into Web 3.0 to improve or support it. However later on in my post I will question the idea of Web 3.0 and the semantic web.
Here is a site with examples of silimarities and differences.
http://internet.suite101.com/article.cfm/what_is_web_30
It can also be suggested that Web 3.0 is far more powerful than Web 2.0. In an article that I read they have suggested Web 3.0 and the semantic web to be the same thing. Perhaps a combination of the two is being considered? I feel that a combination of both Web 3.0 and the semantic web would result in a very professional product with easy navigation and access to information. From my research i've found that Web 3.0 isn't necessarily going to be the fixed name of the future web, but instead Web 3.0 is a way of promoting it to a group of people who know that the web at the moment is known as Web 2.0. If they don't keep the name Web 3.0 I wonder what it might be called? (although web 3.0 does seem the common sense name)
I feel you should all have a read of this article and inparticular the comments which people have made at the bottom of the page. I found them very interesting!
Author Unknown (2007), Web 3.0 and beyond: the next 20 years of the internet, http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article2726190.ece, [Accessed 25.03.09]
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You seem to have the essential point that it's arguable that Web 3.0 is a marketing device!
ReplyDeleteI think there is also a notion of ubiquitous connectivity with a web that knows who you are and where you are and what you're likely to want in your situation. Also, that using any consumer computing tool will be a matter of pay-per-use, like pay-as-you-go phones. This would make the access technology cheap.