Microsoft confirmed an agreement to buy Powerset, one of the leaders in semantic search
As rumored last week, Microsoft, with the notion of a Yahoo deal receding quickly in the rear-view mirror, is taking another tack in its efforts to stem the dominance of Google search — rather than playing catch up, it wants to try leapfrog. Today, Microsoft confirmed an agreement to buy Powerset, one of the leaders [...]
Web 3.0: Is It About Personalization?
On the UK’s Guardian newspaper site today, writer Jemina Kiss suggested that Web 3.0 will be about recommendation. “If web 2.0 could be summarized as interaction, web 3.0 must be about recommendation and personalization,” she wrote. Using Last.fm and Facebook’s Beacon as an example, Kiss painted a picture of a web where personalized recommendation services [...]
The original design and ultimate destiny of the World Wide Web, by its inventor
This book is written to address the questions most people ask – From “What were you thinking when you invented it?” through “So what do you think of it now?” to “Where is this all going to take us?”, this is the story. It is not a technical book. (If you want the technical details, [...]
The future of the Web as seen by its creator – Tim Berners-Lee
According to Webster’s Online Dictionary semantic means “the relationships between symbols and what they represent.” Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented the World Wide Web in 1989 at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, has used the term to christen the Internet of the future.The Semantic Web is a set of technologies he’s [...]
What’s next for the Internet?
After taking one of the first Internet companies — EarthWeb — public in 1998, Nova Spivack joined some friends at a weedy airstrip deep inside the new Russia for a trip into Earth’s stratosphere. Having space travel on your resume is de rigueur for Internet entrepreneurs these days, but this was 1999, and not even [...]
Do You Know Your Web 2.0?
Do you know your Web 2.0? Take the eWEEK Emerging Technology Web 2.0 quiz. WEB 2.0 Quiz
Report Reveals AJAX on the Rise
There are now 3.5 million AJAX developers worldwide, a 50 percent increase over the past year, based on results of a survey that will be released next week. The survey, conducted by Santa Cruz, Calif.-based Evans Data Corp., will also reveal that nearly four out of five, or 78 percent, of AJAX applications are developed [...]
Web 3.0 is about creating Semantic Web
The Semantic Web is a web of data. There is lots of data we all use every day, and its not part of the web. I can see my bank statements on the web, and my photographs, and I can see my appointments in a calendar. But can I see my photos in a calendar [...]
