What Comes After Web 2.0?

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• FOAF: Are we ready? grausc01 on 12/01/2006 at 9:37 AM

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  I'm a young guy and am often ready to give out information about myself to a computer system in order for others to be able to find me.  When I talk to my mother about what I do, she cries invasion of privacy and that all this data collecting is only leading to a surveillance state.  Having worked with databases and surveys to reach people for marketing purposes I understand how useful it can be to have lots of exact information.  But until people are willing to feel that nothing is private (except account numbers, SS#, etc), trying to link everyone together will be a long way off.  I think it would be more important to work on FOAF-like meta data for products so that one location links together instruction manuals, customer service, updates, user reviews, known problems, and price comparisons all in one place; not like how we have websites with unique information which aren't interconnected in any manner to provide a comprehensive view of a product. Rate this comment: (Reply)

  • 	Re: FOAF: Are we ready? hosro59@comcast.net on 12/01/2006 at 11:54 AM
    Posts: 6	We are already surveilled. Would metadata provide even richer personal data files, as well as subject data we are interested in? I would like that there be protection of personal data.  But, there seems to be as much genious subverting any protection as there is developed. Would a Web 2.0 or 3.0 be one that would have a means to include or exclude commercial data, ads? Rate this comment: (Reply)

  • 	Re: FOAF: Are we ready? lund1967 on 12/01/2006 at 1:05 PM
    Posts: 5 Avg Rating:	I agree.  Having all of that information in one convenient location is just asking to be hacked.  And because the database does not store SSN's or credit card numbers, security may not be as high a priority as it ought.  I don't think I would use anything like this. Rate this comment: (Reply)

  • Re: FOAF: Are we ready? rckthms62 on 12/04/2006 at 2:13 PM

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    Privacy is a good point, and I am very worried about it, but we will have to find that balance between privacy and meta-data access. We do need browsers that can give us perceived and accurate preferences without us really asking for it. The internet is filled with information that is too “all-over-the-place”. We need a more logical system that can better understand search request. Mashup is one way to achieve this lack of relevant information gathering. New systems like the Chamberecommerce.com website is a great example in the Mashup concept. It takes everything you need to create an ecommerce website and places it all in one package, eliminating the need of outsourcing such services as PayPal functions. The future will be filled with meta-data and mashup products and functions.      Rate this comment: (Reply)

• 	Piggy Bank Firefox Extension? rjstone on 12/01/2006 at 1:29 PM
  Posts: 2	Does anyone have any more detail about what to search for on addons.mozilla.org for a Piggy Bank Firefox extension?  I tried "piggy bank", "screenscraper", "scraper", "mashup", among others, and didn't get anything.  Rate this comment: (Reply)

  • 	Re: Piggy Bank Firefox Extension? jorge.jsf on 12/01/2006 at 5:29 PM
    Posts: 1	Google is your friend: http://www.google.com/search?q=piggy%20bank%20firefox%20extension Rate this comment: (Reply)

• 	We're doing it already Wonderkid on 12/01/2006 at 3:11 PM
  Posts: 2	Drop us a line at owonder.com/contact and we'll let you know when our FOAF/RDF powered service is ready to rock and roll. Rate this comment: (Reply)

• Meta Validation dtiffany on 12/03/2006 at 3:20 PM

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  We can add all of the metadata and/or tags we want to web resources but that does not mean that the "data about the data" honestly or accurately describes the resource. This is why Google does not place much importance on the metadata already contained in html document headers in terms of search ranking etc. Ensuring or verifying the validity of metadata would be a task equal to that of actually creating it but would have to be repeated continually. Rate this comment: (Reply)

• Would Google + Facebook = Web 2.2 ?? cullin on 12/03/2006 at 4:52 PM

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  Wade Roush writes that his "current Web calendar, for example, knows very little about me, except that I have appointments today at 8:30 A.M. and 4:00 P.M. A Semantic Web calendar would not only know my name, but would also have a store of standardized metadata about me, such as "lives in: Las Vegas," "born in: 1967," "likes to eat: Thai food," "belongs to: Stonewall Democrats," and "favorite TV show: Battlestar Galactica." As I read this passage I looked up to the tabs along the top of my browser and noticed I still had FaceBook.com open ... and it occured to me that a similar set of factoids is already stored in my FaceBook profile (see http://humber.facebook.com/profile.php?id=507133544) ... To wit: "lives in: Mississauga," "born in: 1967," "likes to eat: Italian food," "favorite TV show: The Daily Show," and political views: "Libertarian". More to the point FaceBook already allows for the type of social searching that Wade wishes his calendar was capable of. For instance with one click on my profile I was able to determine the names of 357 people within the Toronto sub grouping of FaceBook who share my interest in the band Rush. As I thought about Wade's argument I started to imaging the fusion between FaceBook's profile comparison engine and Google Calendar. As I thought about it more it occurs to me that among the biggest deficiencies of the Google Apps suite is the lack of a FOAF (Friend of a Friend)  capability. And yet in the tab adjacent to my Gmail window sits FaceBook ... almost screaming "Buy me! Merge my capabilities with yours!" Piggy Bank is an interesting idea. But unless FireFox 2.1 ships with the extension preloaded it is little more then another geek tool. I guess my point in posting this message is this: Google - consider buying FaceBook.com ... and to Mark Zuckerberg (founder of FaceBook) - The price you extract for FaceBook is just the first phase in your road to riches. Which begs the question Mark: Who can leverage (and monetize) the full power of FaceBook over the next 20 years - Google, Yahoo or Microsoft? Put another way: How much would $1 billion in Google stock be worth 20 years from now? How much would $1 billion in Yahoo stock be worth 20 years from now? How much would $1 billion in Microsoft stock be worth 20 years from now? Rate this comment: (Reply)

• Web 2.0 deep into trusted environments.. vikrant.goswami on 12/04/2006 at 1:22 AM

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  Agree that web 2.0 has not made any impact yet on the Internet, but just happen to look at the more trusted corporate environments . Web 2.0 technologies is being used extensively by knowledge management solution vendors like Kanisa  (bought over long time market leaders in Service Resolution Management space i.e. Serviceware), not known as Knova software. With companies like Ontoprise and Cerebra raising huge VC funding and projecting web 2.0 as enabling EAI platform it sure has gret potential. Not to add that giants like  Oracle have integrated Web 2.0 i.e. RDF capabilities and inferencing into Oracle 10g Spatial DB suites. Thus web 2.0 is slowly but surely making inroads into the industry. Not to mention that Google dabbles into Semantic web  Look at http://blogs.smh.com.au/mashup/archives//004396.html Web 2.0 technologies would allow automatic creationg of meta-data from existing repositories with no meta-data . Not sure how long it would somebody take the untrusted environment (heard of Semantic mediation to bride the meta-data gap between two representations of the same domain) of the internet to come up with a commercially viable solutions..... But with such movement in the industry, Web 2.0 is sure to break in into Internet , sooner than later Rate this comment: (Reply)

• Well-tagged content is available for medicine kgilpin on 06/11/2007 at 2:53 PM

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  For example, the National Library of Medicine has extensively tagged the scientific and medical literature. Some tags are redundant with information that can be gleaned from the title or abstract of the article. However, some tags capture meta-properties such as the intended audience of a paper that would be very hard to detect automatically. Curbside.MD http://www.curbside.md is a medical search engine that makes extensive use of concept recognition and tagging. Rate this comment: (Reply)