web 3.0

A major shift is taking place on the world wide web. We're moving from an application-driven web 2.0 world to a semantic or web 3.0 one. While this shift is going to take a substantial amount of time, it is already taking place.

The key to understanding web 3.0 is to look at browsing and buying habits. Everyone has limited time and wants information quickly presented in a logical and organized fashion so they can make the best buying decision. We also want to be able to access this information from anywhere in the world on a variety of different devices. For example, the percentage of Americans accessing information online using mobile phones and other hand-held devices is higher the percentage of Americans with access to high-speed internet from a home computer.

Web 3.0 provides people more intelligent information at lighting speed paces allowing them to make the best decisions. It also allows us to communicate in a variety of different capacities from virtual reality worlds to live streaming video and audio.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “web 3.0”

 

• The Promise Of E-Commerce

  
  Sramana Mitra on Strategy — Authority: 500
  Whichever way you look at it, the web has become the place for commerce. Online spending grew again over 2011, and the growth rate has outpaced that of traditional brick-and-mortar stores. While many... ___
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• #Wordless Wednesday

  
  Dave Lucas — Authority: 495
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• The Bigger They Are

  
  Dave Lucas — Authority: 495
  Maybe a week ago - I was engaged in a bit of friendly online banter with Ana from the Traffic Cafe blog : we were chatting about (*naturally*) our blogs. Ana is a WordPresser and Im a blogspotter. We have different ideas of what ones blog should look like. I dont favor the in-your-face templates with large print ...
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• Yahoo In Disarray, Business Declining

  
  Sramana Mitra on Strategy — Authority: 500
  Yahoo’s management changes continue. The company recently replaced former CEO Carol Bartz with ex-PayPal executive Scott Thompson, and a few weeks later, co-founder Jerry Yang stepped down from the... ___
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• Picnik is closing – Get Premium features for Free till April 19, 2012

  
  Technology Cloud — Authority: 95
  Picnik was acquired by Google and then integrated Picnik into Google Photos (Picasa) and Google+ earlier, but still the Picnik service was provided to the existing users and premium customers. Now Google is completely shutting down individual service Picnik and will continue only on Google Photos and Google+. ...
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• Countdown to 24/7 Connectivity 4 All

  
  Dave Lucas — Authority: 495
  The Work-Life Collision is underscored by societys compulsion to be connected to the digiverse or inforbahn or internet or social network::: [refer to " Email With Your Eyeballs, Change Channels With Your Spleen "] Of course I smell "fee" lurking around somewhere: "With GoToMyPC installed on your computer and the ...
  3 weeks ago

• 2 sites fantásticos para descobrir as melhores startups web do planeta

  
  Web 2.0 Portugal — Authority: 120
  São para mim os dois casos mais interessantes de listagem de startups web (para lá das referências mais vulgarmente difundidas). São sites muito simples construídos sobre o Tumblr de forma que se torna muito simples de seguir, especialmente para quem é utilizador registado do serviço. Ambos os ...
  3 weeks ago

• What I want from Web 3.0

  
  RC Gale — Authority: 102
  I don’t want Web 3.0 to predict my buying habits or push products on me. I don’t want it to be an extension of consumerism. I want it to help me put connections together. I want it to help me research and think and find new ideas. I want it to be an extension of my brain, not my wallet. I want it to guide me to ...
  3 weeks ago

• A tribute to SunSpace

  
  Reiser 2.0 — Authority: 79
  The sad news is that SunSpace has been decommissioned on December 2011 - the good news is that the SunSpace content and communities have a new home on Oracle WebCenter . Read the story about SunSpace - one of the coolest Social Enterprise implementations ...  SunSpace was Sun Microsystems  ...
  3 weeks ago

• #Google+ Just WENT #SocialSearch: You’d Better Reach OUT and Grasp This Platform

  
  Anise Smith Marketing — Authority: 411
  I have been speaking of the newness of Social Media as we know it now , all of the Social Media Channels that we should be using and how we should be rocking our blogs .  These are definitely channels that all business owner should have been using for a while and that we should be comfortable with by now. ...
  4 weeks ago

• Web 3.0 – The Personalization of the Internet

  
  The Brand Difference Makers blog — Authority: 99
  The web as we know it is a continually changing beast. Nearly 10 years ago, it started out as static web pages, textbook-like design and noisy modems that beeped and crackled to tell us our Internet connection was starting up like an old car. Then, Web 2.0 arrived with broadband video and growing online ...
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• Top Level Domain for data answers the wrong question

  
  Paul Miller - The Cloud of Data — Authority: 475
  Image of Stephen Wolfram via Wikipedia British-born computer scientist  Stephen Wolfram  sees ongoing efforts to extend the Internet’s top-level domains ( TLDs ) beyond the familiar .com, .org, .uk etc as an opportunity to raise the profile of machine-readable data. In a blog post published yesterday , he ...
  4 weeks ago

• Top Level Domain for data answers the wrong question

  
  CloudAve — Authority: 510
  Image of Stephen Wolfram via Wikipedia British-born computer scientist  Stephen Wolfram  sees ongoing efforts to extend the Internet’s top-level domains ( TLDs ) beyond the familiar .com, .org, .uk etc as an opportunity to raise the profile of machine-readable data. In a blog post published yesterday , he ...
  4 weeks ago

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