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Web3.0 for dummies

Written on 26th June 2008 18 COMMENTS
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur

A few weeks ago I saw a presentation by Dutch internet strategy adviser Freek Bijl. In his presentation he used a few simple but charming analogies to explain what Web3.0 is and what technologies it uses. The presentation was clear and easy to understand which is rare when it comes to technical stuff like this.

I complimented him on it and asked if he could make an English version available online so I could link to it but he replied that he didn’t have an English version. Today Freek emailed me that he took the effort of translating the whole presentation so we could post it here.

There are two parts to the presentation and I’m including the second, more indepth, version here. If you like the presentation do also check out Part 1.

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Before I could post it here Slideshare discovered his presentation too and put it on their ‘featured‘ pages so it is becoming quite popular now.

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About the author: Serial entrepreneur and founder of several companies. Current activities include TwitterCounter.com & this Blog. Boris is also very active on Twitter: @Boris

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Jun 27, 2008: Web 3.0 « Martha Mihaly
[...] 26, 2008 Web 3.0 Posted by Martha Mihaly under Uncategorized Boris has a wonderful post at The Next Web about Web 3.0 for dummies. He has posted a super slideshow done by Freek Bijl [...]
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[...] de weblog The Next Web lees ik over een presentatie die Freek Bijl heeft gegeven over het onderwerp Web 3.0. In twee [...]
Feb 18, 2009: kateho (Kate Ho)
Really? is web 3.0 just the semantic web? http://tinyurl.com/6r7cmd

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Mar 2, 2009: gomikeyourself (John Tanner)
http://tinyurl.com/6r7cmd Web 3.0 for dummies

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Mar 11, 2009: dandyel (Dandyel GC)
This is inspiring/insane/funny/boring: http://tinyurl.com/6r7cmd there is a stamp presentation about web3.0 nice!

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Mar 26, 2009: laudowicz (Laurens Laudowicz)
Reading Web3.0 for dummies: http://tinyurl.com/6r7cmd

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Mar 30, 2009: evectis (=david.l.woolfenden)
RT: @laudowicz Reading Web3.0 for dummies: http://tinyurl.com/6r7cmd

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Mar 30, 2009: inarator (inarator)
RT: @laudowicz Reading Web3.0 for dummies: http://tinyurl.com/6r7cmd

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By Matt on Jun 26, 2008

This is a great post – thanks for the info.

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By Martin on Jun 26, 2008

Great slide show and a good read, some progress has been made in the time since I completed my studies. My lecturers were talking about this in 1996, and we were writing simple programs that did quite a bit of the legwork.

But with the current rate of progress (all that information on each item has to be entered) I am not holding my breath for this to be useful for at least, say, another 20 years. Excluding maybe some very limited domains of data.

The world seems to be making great progress in entering their holiday pictures, music and DVD’s. But many other things aren’t even on the horizon yet. Web 2.0 is about having fun, not about boring data entry.

Companies opening up their internal databases would be a great step forward (say computer part numbers) but they seem a little too shy (no benefit, lots of hassle).

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By Martha Mihaly on Jun 26, 2008

Excellent Post Boris. Thanks for sharing it with us.

I agree with @Martin that a great step forward is to have companies open up their data bases… coming aboard the whole wiki phenonmenon. Web users are defining their needs and comuunially providing the solutions to more and more questions on the web.

Social networking, social problem solving, and collaborations on scales thus far unimagined will in my opinion drive the future direction of the web.

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By Anonymous on Jun 26, 2008

you explained the concept in a very simple, easily understandable manner, Boris!1

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By Mathilde on December 30th, 2008:
I would like to have a copy of the slide show on 3.0

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By Freek Bijl on Jun 26, 2008

Thanx for the compliments! @Martin: I don’t really agree on the “only fun” part of Web 2.0. I think that a lot of companies can’t keep up the tempo the consumers can. That’s why a lot of web 2.0 functionalities are used for fun.

The big question is when we – as users of the internet – will benefit from semantics and intelligence. I think this will come sooner than we would expect. Why? Because of Google. Meaningfull data will have a big impact on vertical search. Vertical (or Universal) search is the next big thing for Google. Companies will have to invest in enriching their data. Otherwise they won’t be in a vertical and therefore the (or their products) won’t exist. Check google.com/products and do the math :)

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By stacy on Aug 19, 2008

very good explanation…thanks for sharing

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By shawnh on Oct 28, 2008

just like 2.0 but through a different lens

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By Erin on Dec 9, 2008

Hi,

Why does this take so long to download, im really interested in Web 3.0 but the thing just wont load quickly enuff!!

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By Bruce Lee on Apr 9, 2009

WEB3.0 = RFID = ANTICHRIST

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