Introduction to Web 3.0 a Free Course: Day Four

Today we are going to explore varying perceptions of web 3.0.  Below is a collection several interesting articles and videos from experts: Tim O’Rielly, Nicholas Carr and Kevin Kelly on the subject of web 3.0.  It’s interesting to see the Web 3.0 from three different perspectives.
Today’s 3.0 Nonsense Blogstorm, by Tim O’Rielly
I find myself particularly [...]

Is Mashlogic a Glimpse of Web 3.0?

Today TechCrunch posted a feature of Mashlogic which is launching today in private beta mode by Bessemer Venture Partners.  Mashlogic promises to help users, “take back the web,” from its present state of commercialized content.  Mashlogic is an extension of Firefox that works, “under the hood” of the browser.  The application aims to deliver individualized [...]

Introduction to Web 3.0: A Free Course (Day 3)

It’s day three of class!  Let’s begin with an article published in Technology Review. The article focuses on Eric Miller, an MIT-affiliated computer scientist.  Miller was the leading scientist over a group of researchers who worked together on a project in 2002 on the semantic Web.  Here is a quote from the article:
“For the Semantic [...]

Introduction to Web 3.0: A Free Course (Day 2)

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Day two of WEB30 consists of an article published in Scientific American.com.  The article was written by Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila.
In 1989 Tim Berners-Lee invented the World-Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing while at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory.
Written in 2001, the paper explores the [...]

Introduction to Web 3.0: A Free Course

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Last year I took a course in which I had to choose from a list of topics for my final paper.  Hesitantly I chose chose the topic the Semantic Web after my favorite topic Web 2.0 consumed by a competing classmate.  As I look back at those weeks and weeks of [...]