The Web 3.0 Conference in New York last week was a visible success. Attendance was good, and so it seems that the organizers are making money. That is significant in Continue reading »

Part Two of a Two-Part Series. Part one can be found here. At this month's DEMO 09 conference, one of the most apparent trends was the emergence of several new Continue reading »

Part One of a Two-Part Series We're moving beyond the days of a simple search box in which you type a query and get a list of results. Today, companies Continue reading »

The social Web has given users great power: the ability to create and share content with people around the world - easily and quickly. The problem of course, is that Continue reading »

The EU-funded OpenKnowledge program is a smart toolkit designed to unlock the hidden resources of the web that can't be accessed by web sites and browsers alone. With a small, Continue reading »

It was two years ago that we first heard of Zigtag, a service that promised to "transform how people search, save and share knowledge & information." Now, after a nine-month Continue reading »

It was only this morning that we were lamenting about the lack of the perfect social tool when what did we stumble across but Twitchboard? No, no, it's not the Continue reading »

"Imagine what your cell phone could know [about you]," pondered Sandro Hawke (Semantic Web Developer, W3C), at the Web 3.0 Conference and Expo in Santa Clara, CA this week. "It Continue reading »

Something struck me while listening to Tim O'Reilly's keynote speech at the Web 2.0 expo yesterday: glancing at my notes after he walked off stage, I noticed that his current Continue reading »

So we're only half a decade at most into the Web 2.0 era, and we still don't really know what "Web 2.0" is. Yet for some reason, over the past Continue reading »