Web 3.0 - What you may not know about the new web

Editor's Notes

1. Nobody knows. In fact, we still haven't settled on a definition for Web 2.0. So I propose that we stop using this term altogether.
2. Push Model, Push/Pull Model, Live Stream Model In this talk, I will be projecting how our current technologies will evolve the next Web
3. The web today is less than 7000 days old. Think about that for a moment. Everything on the internet, whether it's the 350 million people on Facebook or the virtual cities of SIMs, it all happened during our lifetime! The Web takes 5% of global electricity.
4. Google was the first serious attempt towards modelling this trend using the now famous algorithm, PageRank.
5. Sharing data is a huge step from sharing web pages.
6. The web started out as a leech model. You leech on to websites. It was a consumer oriented web. Somebody produced information, everyone else consumed it
7. Ajax is a programming technique that supports instantaneous Instead of checking, "is it there yet? is it there yet?" The web just feeds the content to us when it's ready. Example: GMail
8. I was on Twitter when Michael Jackson passed away. The news of his death got to me faster than others who rely on more passive forms of consumption, like Television. The Read/Write web can aggregate and prioritize to give the right information at any given time. Content feeds generate events, popularity/frequency are tracked on ongoing basis. Key is indexing.  
9. Web applications today are further democratizing their content using a set of new protocols.
10. Linked data is making the web useful by means of leveraging the inherit information contained inside each website.
11. There is a movement towards opening up your social media data
12. We saw the power of data portability during President Obama's inaugaration Show how Facebook Connect is used by nerdkits FB Connect is even being integrated into MySpace!
13. http://www.toronto.ca/open/
14. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LabCylbapuM
15. The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project is creating a Web of machine-readable pages describing people, the links between them and the things they create and do; it is a contribution to the linked information system known as the Web. FOAF is part of a shift towards a Web where we can choose the sites and tools we like, without being cut off from friends who made different choices.
16. FlameWhale FuelFeed Getting Around: Users can move from location-to-location by obtaining real-time data on traffic jams through sites like Waze (Give demonstration: http://waze.com )
17. Technology is naturally progressing towards wider reach.
18. The advantage of cloud computing is that it's economical, due to economies of scale and its on-demand nature. And it increases the reach. The Hard Disk Drive gets replaced with the internet. It's quite possible that soon, even MP3 players could host all the music in a cloud, making the device size even smaller and infinitely increasing disk space.
19. I prepared this lecture on EverNote on my laptop. EverNote uploads all the content to the cloud, enabling me to access it over the web. I can then access this data on a mobile device.
20. The introduction of Google Wave has changed the web. We don't see it yet, but it's happening. Google Wave is truly real-time, cloud based, and collaborative.
21. The availability of data anywhere is making it possible for mobile devices to become geographically aware. You can use your mobile device to take photo of a barcode, upload it to the cloud, and then use webservices provided by Google Products to determine comparative prices at the store next door.   One could use TineEye to take a photo of a product on a shelf and do the same.   Simple applications like this will revolutionize our lives. The availability of all this data is opening up the opportunity to take the next step forward, and make this information for useful.
22. Yahoo Text Extraction API (show how I used this at budgetelectronics.ca) Thoora, Postrank ( http://www.postrank.com/topic/Technology/posts ) Wolfram Alpha, cot(pi/n), andromeda galaxy, apple food
23. Ray Kurzweil has repeatedly asserted that the exponential growth of our  technology is itself an exponent. We are fundamentally dependent on the availability of information. The web has enabled us to not only consume, but also take part in the content. Today, it's more readily available and integratable across websites. Human brain 20, 000 years ago and today. Web 20 years ago and today.