Shailendra Sial asked:




So as a final point what do we expect from this New Generation Web? It won’t surprise me if Web 2.0 just turns out to be a stage making way to a much more mature and durable Web 3.0 is going to deliver a new generation of business applications Web 3.0 era. Over a couple of weeks I have been reading articles and trying to analyze key characteristics of Web 3.0, using a lot of company examples like Google, Amazon and eBay. But I’m not too sure if all these companies will be leading the Web 3.0 era. Some less mentioned companies like WebEx, WebSideStory, NetSuite, Jamcracker, Rearden Commerce and Salesforce.com have also been casting light on how Web 3.0 might take over the World of Web.

I would like to make a point here for people still not very clear about Web 3.0. This new web isn’t just about shopping, entertainment or some kind of search; instead it will bring in a new generation of business applications that will change the definition of all the above mentioned terms.

So will the ‘Web 3.0′ be the Semantic Web? Probably yes. It might just take some time to annotate the world’s information and then to capture personal information in the right way, to enable the kinds of applications that we have discussed. For all my interest in the technologies being used, I see two drawbacks to Web 3.0 or the New Generation Web.

Semantic Web (Web 3.0) is just Personalized Web

The first is that, to me, the semantic web isn’t a web centralized in a specific tool or environment instead web in a whole. If we have a “Facebook and Wikipedia mashup”, it might be successful, and it might be semantic, but it isn’t the web. The whole point of the semantic web technologies is for each of us to interpret our data, wherever we are, regardless of tool, and begin to really drive out the tiny threads of true meaning on a global scale. If we have to leave our places where we’re at and go elsewhere, this seems to create a disconnect, right from the start.

The second issue I saw the marketing hype associated with the tool; the uses of the terms: “Web 3.0″, “semantic graph”, and the “first mainstream Semantic Web application”. I can understand the reasoning behind the marketing. After all, this is the candy that lures in the kiddies, and adds billions of valuation to chaotic applications like Facebook. Lack of effective promotion is what the semantic web supporters have been criticized for in the past.

At the same time, the marketing, location, and early associations also serves to enclose the application within an increasingly limited community. I can’t think of anything more ‘not’ semantic web than to become part of such an narrow community.

Still, these are my perceived drawbacks based on what I read. I won’t know anything ‘real’ until I try the app myself.

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