Eric Rodenbeck: Beyond the Web We Know

What will our future online look and feel like? How do we make sense of an increasingly decentralized world where technology threatens to take us away from a sense of place and home?

Event Poster

Web 3.0 Summary

As promised I am going to be posting facts and figures about Web 3.0, just to get our minds moving. Here's the first as quoted from the oracle of oracles... Wikipedia.

"Nova Spivack defines Web 3.0 as the third decade of the Web (2010–2020) during which he suggests several major complementary technology trends will reach new levels of maturity simultaneously including:

• transformation of the Web from a network of separately siloed applications and content repositories to a more seamless and interoperable whole.
• ubiquitous connectivity, broadband adoption, mobile Internet access and mobile devices;
• network computing, software-as-a-service business models, Web services interoperability, distributed computing, grid computing and cloud computing;
• open technologies, open APIs and protocols, open data formats, open-source software platforms and open data (e.g. Creative Commons, Open Data License);
• open identity, OpenID, open reputation, roaming portable identity and personal data;
• the intelligent web, Semantic Web technologies such as RDF, OWL, SWRL, SPARQL, GRDDL, semantic application platforms, and statement-based datastores;
• distributed databases, the "World Wide Database" (enabled by Semantic Web technologies); and
• intelligent applications, natural language processing, machine learning, machine reasoning, autonomous agents."

Now let's see if we can find a tech to explain some of this. Actually, you can find the rest of the article here...

Wikipedia Web 3.0 Breakdown

Posted by Michael Foster

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Washington Post Media CEO Katharine Weymouth in conversation with Aspen Institute President and CEO Walter Isaacson on the difficulty of identifying revenue streams for quality news content online and what the near future holds for the industry.

The Main Event

Cafe Brainstorm: The Future of the Web in the Next Decade

Hosted by Michael Foster & Margaret Friedman in Seattle, Washington

When: Friday, February 27 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM (new date)
Fee: Free
Where: Mosaic Coffeehouse
4401 2nd Ave NE
Seattle, Washington 98105
Fri Feb 27, 2009 2:00 PM

During the Cuban Missle Crisis Bobby Kennedy suggested we gather a group of smart guys and lock them in a room until they came up with some good ideas. In that spirit, we're hosting this event.

Beauty vs. the Blog: We're looking for creatives and technicians to discuss in depth the trends and ideas that will shape the world wide web, how we interact with it, the problems with content management, upcoming programs that will change how we design for the web, the importance of video in the next five years... you name it, we'll disucss it for an hour, then spend the next hour networking and more than likely drinking lots of coffee.

We are planning to have this event recorded for broadcast on the web on my website as well as a handful of others. So when you RSVP just know there's a good chance you'll be on video. The sign-in sheet will serve as a release form. Also, we will be posting this video on a blog (either my own or on its own), where everyone that RSVP's will have the ability to post contributions to this topic. We may even have one-on-one video interviews scheduled at a later date for those who would like to participate.

We've been talking about hosting an important event like this for quite some time. The web is rapidly changing and we invite everyone to use these ideas that are generated for their business. Even if you don't want to RSVP, but would like to observe and take notes, you are more than welcome. Unfortunately, if we have more than 16 involved in the discussion, it might become too difficult to manage. Sorry!

Look forward to seeing you there.