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At Web2.0 Expo Tim O’Reilly makes an interesting Key Note speech where he anticipates what Web3.0 will be all about. He compares the Web’s life cycle with the growing of a new born baby. As for the baby for Web1.0 there were loads of information that couldn’t be understood or connected. After a few month the oral phase makes the world interactively plumbable, i.e. the baby sticks things in it’s mouth and discovers that there are differences between materials and so on. This is where Web2.0 started. Today the Web is a child that can play - having fun discovering things, enjoy the information….

Web3.0 is the phase of going to school. The Web will really understand the matters of the world by adding sense throug the semantic web and related technologies. There is the mobile web and the social web…. It’s interesting where the Web will beam us in the near future. O’Reilly says: Web2.0 + The World = The World squared. We’ll see…

See the video here

I am still wondering about the enormous success of twitter. Maybe it’s because the contents are generated more spontanous then blog articles (for which the author takes her time) and thus more “real”. I just found two sites which sentiment-analyze the words  posted with twitter:

TWENDZ

TWITRRATR

I just found that video from Google I/O with a key note of Marissa Meyer on “How Google Works”:

Yesterday I found an interesting website, which applies the wiki principle on another area: http://www.wikihow.com

This is not about lexical knowledge of the masses but about How-To’s on several fields. As usual in wikis the contents are written and produced (you can find video How-To’s as well) by the community. Another approach on the “Wisdom of crowds”.

Just to give some examples, you could find those 10 How’to’s to improve your professional life:

1. How-To manage Geeks
2. How-To be a good manager
3. How-To develop an IT Change Management Program
4. How-To establish an IT project
5. How-To be an effective Project Manager
6. How-To run an effective meeting
7. How-To motivate Staff
8. How-To access useful Web Development Tools
9. How-To Have successful Open-Source projects
10. How-To improve your Skills as a programmer