From World Wide Web to World Wide Guide by Marjan Herbert (LogicaCMG) |
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Presentation by Marjan Herbert (LogicaCMG) at Cross media workshop Jan 25th 2008.
The four phases of Web 3.0 are
- creating,
- enhancing/ augmenting (with tags etc),
- analysis of mutual relevance which gives context, and
- the creation of new services/ new ways of representation based on that relevance.
Marjan Herbert of Logica CMG took us on a journey through the Web 1.0 of the past, via the present Web 2.0, to a possible future Web 3.0 and even Web 4.0. We all remember static websites 1.0. Brochure-like expositions of companies on the web, on which you could only take information and do little else. With Web 2.0, this has changed. We can not only read, but also write, on our blogs or microblogs (e.g.Twitter), on our social network profile (e.g. Hyves, Facebook), we can put our pictures online (e.g. Flickr) and tag them by putting a label on them that’s meaningful to us, like we can also do with other content we find online (e.g. del.icio.us) and based on these meta-data, these tags of millions of people, aggregators can tell us which content is best-rated or most viewed or whatever. This is a big difference with the static “take it or leave it” websites of the past. Now we can create content and enhance/augment it by placing our own stamp on it. These are the first steps that bring us into the era of Web 3.0 according to Herbert, because based on the tagging that people do, one can analyze data based on their mutual relevance which gives information on the context of the information.
Knowledge of the context is required to be able to interpret and give meaning to content, so context is of the utmost importance in an age in which there is an overload of irrelevant data and still a lack of relevant information or knowledge. And the commercially interesting part is where based on that relevance, new services and new ways of representation can be created, of which Marjan Herbert has shown some examples (e.g. Silverlight, Photosynth).
The key is that in Web 3.0 the user is in control. Instead of having to search through and compare millions of snippets of information about for example a place to spend your holiday, searching now becomes possible also for the more complex questions in which many many variables play a role. By combining data from many sources a family with two kids can for example spend their holidays in a house (accommodation site) in a sunny location in Europe (weathersite) for two weeks during the school holidays (planning site) to which they can drive while avoiding the major traffic jams (traffic site) and which is within their budget (site of their bank).
Although there are multiple perspectives on what Web 3.0 is or will be (will it be the semantic web, will its main focus be virtual 3D environments etc), I think that everyone involved in the experience-business can agree on Herbert’s main adagio: The user is in control. It’s all about the individual.
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