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Yahoo! is going semantic

  Yahoo is announcing a big shift: they want to go to the next step of web search by adopting some of the key standards of the "semantic web". The semantic web helps to capture the meaning of data online and to provide very accurate search results. Yahoo's move is part of a bigger strategic shift by the company to open up its search technology to developers and programmers outside the firm. More on BBC News.

What comes Next on the Web?

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This is an interesting slideshow realized by ReadWriteWeb which covers in few pages the most important topics of Web 3.0. The presentation contains hyperlinks to dig into more details.

 

Christmas shopping stress? Send your avatar shop for you!

 
Christmas shopping stress is around the corner. Always more people avoid the crowd by shopping online. The next step is probably that you give a rough list of ideas to Christmas Father your avatar. Send him to the online virtual worlds, he might talk to the avatar of a nice book shop in London or to the avatar of a wine shop in Bordeaux ... or whatever. With semantic web, he might even anticipate your wishes and come with a list of proposals before you ask him. In ten years?  Doesn´t look like, probably just a couple of years. By the way, Kinset is a nice 3D online shopping platform of a new kind ... already far ahead.

Le Web3 Live - follow the conference starting today in Paris

 

Netvibes is going social

social community	friends activity	French web star Netvibes (RSS widget customizable page) shall upgrade tomorrow, right in time for the Web3 conference held in Paris. The new Ginger version will integrate social and fully customizable design functions.
premium widgets	create your universe	With those new functions, Netvibes is consolidating its leadership in the world of RSS readers. One of my favorite tools which I utilize everyday to follow worldwide news, especially in marketing, technology and web2 areas.

Ten breakthrough semantic web applications... now

via Read/Write Web. Those ten semantic web applications (web 3.0, see my previous mail) might revolutionize your web experience soon. Freebase is an open database. Spock is a people search engine (see my previous mail). Hakia and Powerset are natural language search engines. Tripit is an application that manages your travel planning. Clearforest is an annotation application which highlights in different colors companies, countries, industry terms, organizations, people, products and technologies present in the webpage you are visiting. Adaptive Blue allows to display smart links widgets on your website (see an example in the middle column of this blog which shows books recommendations). Twine - currently in private beta - enables people to share knowledge and information (see full a review here).Talis enables developers to create apps that allow for sharing, remixing and re-using data. True Knowledge combines natural language analysis, an internal knowledge base and external databases to offer immediate answers to various questions.

From web1.0 to web3.0: get the point in a picture

This is a basic visualiation but nevertheless good explanation of differences between web1, 2, and 3 (called semantic web). Seen on Nesta. In brief: web 1.0 is a one-way platform, web 2.0 is a two-way platform where participation is a key-word. Web 3.0 shows more intelligence: the "web machine" learns, suggests and anticipates what people like and would like to get. By the way, web founder Tim Berners-Lee gave an interesting interview to IT World.com where he details his vision on the future of internet, the so-called semantic web.

Social Web browser Flock upgrades

The new version 1.0 of Flock is avalaible since last week. The browser is optimal for multimedia (Flickr, YouTube, pictures download etc by drag and drop), social networking (Facebook, Delicious, Twitter etc) and blogging (I switched back from Windows Live Writer blogging editor to the one integrated in Flock): your own online world in one place. The new version includes a People sidebar (automatic upload from your Facebook and Twitter) as well as performance and stability enhancements. I don´t use Firefox anymore, I think Flock is better for heavy blogging and social networking.

What is Web 3.0, Mister Eric Schmidt ?

Google CEO Eric Schmidt gives his definition of web 3.0. One thing is sure: his sense of humour.

Web3 killing app to browse smarter and create nice widgets

Adaptive Blue is a good example of Semantic Web applications: when you visit a Web page, this browser plug-in can understand  what the page is about, automatically retrieving related information from other  sites and services. You can then save & organize those automatic information the way you like using web2 services or ask for further suggestions. Besides, you can create customizable smart links widgets like the one below by defining the feeds or by choosing in libraries through tags.