In the NYT Article “What I Meant to Say was Semantic Web“, Markoff discusses how “Web 3.0″ or the semantic web companies are cropping up in the Silicon Valley. The semantic web can best be described by Markoff as “technology to make using the Internet better by understanding the meaning of what people are doing, not just the way pages link to each other.”
The article discusses a demonstration of TWINE at the Web 2.0 Conference this week. I signed up for the beta but have to wait until the 29th of October to discover if I’m accepted or not. After reading the entire article I thought of Tim Berners-Lee vision for the web and this is actually technology using the W3 Consortiums RDF (Resource Description Format) to organize data.
The technology also reminded me of the MyLifeBits segment, in which we all upload photos, emails, spreadsheets, and so on, however, now we can collaborate with our colleagues and friends over this data. So, does anyone see that this computing will be the accepted way of collaborating with our colleages, vendors, and customers? If so, what is your best guess at the adoption rate? I submit that this is on the 5 year radar and that business will not necessarily shift their way of conducting business so rapidly. I think businesses are still struglling with acceptable use of blogs, wikis, and tagging and how these methods fit into their corporate strategy.
