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June 23, 2007
On the Road to ALA - Thursday
Well, here I am in Washington, DC. Guess I won’t be on the Internet until tomorrow [it ended up being Saturday]. I tried it from my room and got a message that it will be $10.95/day! Yikes! I’ll just head over to the Convention Center and use theirs.
I borrowed my husband’s Business 2.0 magazine to read on the flight this evening. I don’t know why he keeps getting it. I think it’s a promotional thing since he’s never subscribed to it. There was a good article, Weaving the {Semantic} Web, by Michael V. Copeland. The article talked about Nova Spivack and his company Radar Networks. The company, and others like it are working on Web 3.0 or the Semantic Web. This new iteration of the web people are working on will be a smarter, machine-based web instead of the people based social networked web of today.
Spivack, grandson of Peter Drucker is getting ready to release his first attempt at a commercial use for Web 3.0 by offering a personal planner that will make the computer and network work for the user. Think of it as the computer knowing you well enough that it can seamlessly plan things without all the back and forth calling or emailing that’s usually required now. Ever see that video explanation of a wiki that’s out there? This planner sounds like a giant wiki, only the computer, not the people reads data from several sources and come up with what is the best option for you.
According to this article mashups are early versions of Web 3.0. So is tagging in Flickr. Things like this are what Tom Coates, who works for Yahoo calls, “dirty semantic Web.” I guess that means Web 3.0, phase one.
This sort of thing has been going on for a while if you look at Amazon as it suggests items for you based on past purchases. The CIA is collecting data from several resources on possible terrorist subjects, (hopefully not you and me) trying to find connections or relationships that might foil a terrorist plot in the early stages.
Peter Morville, who was in Ann Arbor for the opening of MLibrary 2.0 will be speaking at ALA on Monday as part of the ALCTS Presidents Program. Topic? Ambient Findability, of course.
Posted by swortman at June 23, 2007 08:50 AM