This week's feature is inspired by Alex Iskold's recent post on what he called The Digestion Phase. Alex defined this as "a period of time for us to reflect, to integrate, and to understand recent technologies and how they fit together."
We've come so far in just a few years and while there's a lot of integration and reflection going on now about 'web 2.0', it's also useful to think about where the Web is headed. What's beyond web 2.0? And no we're not talking about "web 3.0" (whatever that is!).
Alex mentioned some Web Future ideas in his post: Digital Life, Attention Economy, Intelligent Machines, Semantic Search and Web Sites as Web Services. What others are there? And if there's any particular Web Future topic or theme you'd like us to explore this week, please let us know in the comments.
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The mobile web isn't new, but it feels like we are approaching a new level for the mobile web. Could 2008 be the year that everything comes together for the mobile web. Will that reshape our image of the web? Maybe mobile doesn't change the fundamentals of the current web, just provides another view.
Posted by: Craig Baker | September 2, 2007 10:47 PMwould love to hear your guys' thoughts on the future of digital work; in a world in which so many people earn money for the work they do online, are we going to see the rise of the virtual organization? distributed work teams? why or why not? what are the pros and cons?
Posted by: kid mercury | September 3, 2007 4:05 AMHere's self promotion on this theme:
Posted by: Nate Westheimer | September 3, 2007 7:43 AMBricaBox will be ready for the world to see in the next month or so, so if you wanted to do a preview about how we're making the first content publishing platform for the semantic web, we may be open to that.
I have several posts and articles about web evolution. I agree with Alex's presentation of "the Digestion Phase." In fact, at my web evolution posts I also point out that WWW is currently in the middle of its Web-2.0 stage. The transition to the next web-evolution stage is not ready to start yet. The most important task at this current stage is the accumulation of Web-2.0-quality resources. Only if the quantity of Web-2.0-quality resources reaches a certain level, an qualitative transition to the next-stage (probably we can call it Web 3.0) could be occurred.
Based on this vision of web evolution, I daringly predict several important technologies that may be crucial in the next-stage of web evolution. For readers who are interested in the Web Future, these unique predictions could be interesting and helpful.
-- Yihong
Posted by: Yihong Ding | September 3, 2007 1:48 PMI believe that what's beyond web 2.0 will improve mobile, on line video, IPTV and web services. I do believe we will also see improvement in Artificial intelligence, but it will come along.
Posted by: Cristiane | September 9, 2007 4:36 PM