Poll Analysis

From our results,our poll has obtained 9 voters throughout a 6 day period.

We thethirdgen aren't satisfied due to the lack of votes. On the other hand, we are happy because 7 voters felt that Web 3.0 would make their life easier. This is without a doubt a definite thing.

Yet there are a remaining of 2 voters whom are unsure. If you two haven't read our previous articles then it might help but if not then some feedback would be appreciated.

It is an absolute delight to see that no voters choose "Nope". This shows some sign of understanding among our readers.

So once again we would like to thank the voters for their participation.

The Headup Widget

Headup is the creation of SemantiNet, an Israeli company committed to forming Semantic Web technologies and platforms. It is a substance improvement platform for publishers and bloggers that identifies key terms, analyzes site content and automatically provides related material from social networks and popular web services.

The widget is able to differentiate topics that we want to search by removing any uncertainty from a sentence's context. For example, based on the name “Ferdinand”, it can recognize whether the context is related to the footballer Rio Ferdinand or singer Franz Ferdinand or Disney’s musical “Ferdinand the Bull”. This differentiation depends on its knowledge graph to pull related results from best matching web resources.

Certain problems can be solved by using Headup widget in a website. Matters like latest news and key topics can be updated automatically. This widget too can customize the content found automatically so the publishers can contribute quality information to their readers.

Headup widget runs in real time, thus the data on the website will be updated when ever new updates are available. Web 3.0 will have some of this capabilities but do you think this Headup Technology widget can make matters better?

Reference:

Headup Technology, [ONLINE] Retrieved 22^nd February 2011

URL: http://www.headup.com/Technology.php

Google runs on Caffeine

Before I begin, have any of you wondered how Google works?

Well i was going to offer my own interpretation until i came across Mr. Matt Cutts's version, and well his is just a tiny winy better.

In Google's previous web indexing system, it was made up of several layers. In order to update these layers which is carried out through a few weeks, they would need to analyze the entire web, causing a delay between when the new page is found and when you’re able to find out about it.

In other words, when there’s newer content published on a site, it won’t get listed in Google’s index immediately.

Meet Caffeine, Google's current web indexing system. Their able to analyze the entire web continuously, enabling them to update their index with newer sites or information on current sites immediately as their found. Actually Caffeine went live on June 8th 2010 !

Make no mistake, this wasn't some minor optimization.

Caffeine takes up nearly 100 million gigabytes of storage in one database and adds new information at a rate of hundreds of thousands of gigabytes per day. You would need 625,000 of the largest iPods to store that much information; if these were stacked end-to-end they would go for more than 40 miles.

Carrie Grimes, Google Blog

With Caffeine, the search giant has taken another step to give us more accurate, faster, and updated search results. In my opinion, I feel optimizations like this will lead the progression of Web 3.0 as it’s a clear sign that the amount of content in Web 2.0 needs a newer way of organization and management. Don’t you?

References:

Carrie Grimes, Google blog [Online] Retrieved 21^st February 2011
URL: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/our-new-search-index-caffeine.html

Poll Analysis

From our results gathered, our poll has obtained 11 voters throughout a 6 day period. I should point out that our poll tracks IP addresses so hopefully this erases any thought that the results were manipulated.

Good news:

It is a relief to see that 8 out of 11 voters have a better understanding of Web 3.0 now thanks to our articles. This kind of results brings us one step closer in achieving our goal.

2 out 11 voters roughly have an idea on what the next generation web is about. It’s a good start for them. At least better than nothing right?

Bad news:

Only 1 voter remains in dark even after reading our articles.

Now we do hope on some feedback in our comment section when anyone of you found it difficult to understand about what we’re mumbling. It would give us a chance to improve on our content delivery.

Overall this week’s results have greatly satisfied us. We would like to extend our gratitude to our readers that have contributed to this poll.

It’s getting cloudy

Anyone using a computer today has at least had the experience of their computer crashing once. Either you mistakenly deleted some files that can never be replaced or your hard drive did that for you. What about viruses? Where they came from? Whoops, there goes the Master Boot Record.

If only your PC could be like Facebook, everything from your messages, applications and photos all stored online. Who says it can’t?

Welcome to cloud computing.

The idea here is that wherever you go, your work and data follows you. Web 3.0 is seen as this force that’s going to break the barrier between the IT and telecommunications world. Here’s how. Instead of having your data and applications stored and processed by your PC’s hardware, it’s done on other computers and servers. Why?

Cause you get to access it from anywhere as long as you’re connected to the internet. All your files are stored online, so are your programs. If your hard disk dies, you lose nothing.

Furthermore, it’s also faster, eliminating the need for high end hardware. Whatever you do on your desktop; you can have the same experience on your Smart phone despite its 600MHz ARM CPU. How come? Through parallel computing. Just like today’s processors can use multiple cores to divide and spread the workload, that’s exactly how hundreds of computers will be used to process your information or application and pass the data over an internet connection to any device.

No longer will speed be defined by hardware, instead by your internet connection speed.

Can anyone guess the downside to this? Leave your thoughts below!

References:

Ted Hoy, Converging Cloud Computing and the Web, [Online], Retrieved 14th February 2011
URL: http://www.ebizq.net/topics/cloud_computing/features/12477.html?

Semantic Search Engines

“Semantic” is a word with a magic ring to it in search of engine circles. The way it’s hyped makes you suspect it is the second coming of search Web. What is semantic search? in your understanding, well let me guess in which some will say it is a just normal search whereby you may just type what you want to search and you will find it but some will find what they want which might take hours in order to be satisfied. In semantic search engine attempts were made to make sense of search results based on context. It automatically identifies the concepts structuring the texts. For instance, if you search for “election” a semantic search engine might retrieve documents containing the words “vote”, “campaigning” and “ballot”, even if the word “election” is not found in the source document.

SenseBot

A search engine that summarizes search results into one concise digest on the topic of your query. The search engine attempts to understand what the result pages are about. For this purpose it uses text mining to analyze Web pages and identify their key semantic concepts.

Powerset

At present not a regular web search engine. It works best on smaller, relatively structured corpora. The technology offers a comprehensive view of such information. You can test it on Wikipedia and Powerset definitely excels at this, structuring the information and presenting it in a way that, for research purposes, is a great improvement on Wikipedia’s own search engine.

DeepDyve

A professional research tool available for free for the general public. It is a research engine that lets you can access expert content from the “Deep Web”, the part of the Internet that is not indexed by traditional search engines (e.g. databases, journals etc.).

Cognition

Cognition has a search business based on a semantic map, built over past 24 years, which the company claims to be the most comprehensive and complete map of the English language available today. It is used in support of business analysis, machine translation, document search, context search and much more.

Get the idea what semantic search engines are all about?

Arun Radhakrishnan (Search Engine Journal), [Online], Retrieved 14 Feb 2011.

URL: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/semantic-search-engines/9832/

Semantic Search Engines, [Online], Retrieved 15 Feb 2011.

URL: http://www.pandia.com/sew/1262-top-5-semantic-search-engines.html

Web 3.0 Applications

Twine

“Knowledge networking” is the best way to describe Twine. It is an application that links people through their knowledge and interests - not socially - which forms into a graph type and it is called 意味グラフ (semantic graph). Like Wikipedia, where users get information from the system, in Twine, users get information from other users. It is done with semantic tagging and connects everything users search plus allowing them to rearrange their work as they keep on searching. Twine will contain RSS feeds to follow other posts, topics, events, etc; viewing and commenting.

Hakia

Hakia is a semantic search engine.. While most of the current search engines match keywords to obtain results, Hakia "supposedly" able to relate the terms in a sentence, thus producing more accurate results.

One of Hakia’s technologies is QDEX Infrastructure (Query Detection and Extraction) . It's a method of analyzing search queries at sentence level and producing meaningful results. “QDEXing” 名 (names), 日付 (dates), events and information will produce meaningful results.

Triplt

Having trouble with travel planning? Then leave it to Triplt.

All you have to do is send an email with the main information such as destination, budget, and the period. Based on this, Triplt will relate the information you provided with the parameters you set like the budget and present you with an itinerary of the travel fair, hotels, car rentals, local attractions and etc etc. And based on the period, you'll get the weather forecast ( so you'll know whether it may be and in door or out door trip). within this itinerary, your given the ability to set your plans in order by scouting the restaurants, theaters, tours and many more.

Do you think these applications will be helpful? Well I sure do.

Computer World, [Online], Retrieved 4 February 2011.
URL: http://www.computerworld.jp/news/sw/59389.html

Tech Crunch, [Online], Retrieved 4 February 2011.
URL: http://jp.techcrunch.com/archives/twine-launches-a-smarter-way-to-organize-your-online-life/

David Southgate, [Online], Retrieved 5 February 2011.
URL: http://japan.internet.com/ecnews/20081104/12.html

The Pros & Cons

Nothing is ever perfect. Just as how there's no device that's 100% efficient. When there are advantages, more often then none, there are some disadvantages. And this holds true for Web 3.0.

Saves time

Signing up for accounts or filling in registration forms is going to get much easier. With Open ID, there is only one account that holds all of our information. For more on this, see Hartrishen's article.

Remember Paul the Octopus? The sea creature with a sixth sense. As you type your query into the search box, you'll get predictive search results suggestions. How is this different from what Google and Yahoo or other search engines? Well the suggestions will not be keywords only, it may also suggest topics related to your search based on what you have searched previously. As you use the web, your constantly being studied by Info agents. So the next time you enter the same query in Google, you may get a different and more accurate suggestion.

Identity Theft

So with Open ID, the idea is to save time and redundancy right? Well yeah but not only does it simplify your life, it simplifies the task for hackers ! (OMG)

With only one account containing all your personal data, your social security number or IC, Bank account and credit card details, No longer will there be a need for hackers to hack your Facebook, Paypal, eBay, Western Union, and other accounts to screw your life up. All it takes now, is just one account.


With vulnerabilities such as this, does it make you wonder what else Web 3.0 will be prone too?


References:

Bright Hub, [Online], Retrieved 1st February 2011.
URL: http://www.brighthub.com/internet/web-development/articles/82954.aspx