The Web in 2007
No, I believe it won’t be the year for Semantic Web nor Web 3.0. Come on, Web 2.0 has just been here. It’s almost saturated but it haven’t burst, yet. There’s still a long way to go to Semantic Web, regardless it’ll be the Web 3.0 or not. As underlined by Techcrunch, late November, there’s still chicken-egg problem to have Semantic Web implemented using bottom-up approach. The framework has already been there, eg: RDF, OWL. But there aren’t yet any Joe Six Packs tool to do data annotation to form meta data needed by Semantic Web. Even if you’re a die-hard RDF/OWL fan, you’ll still be pretty much exhausted to annotate all of your data, except you are dealing only with FOAF :p. What about your blog? And those company websites, those still web 1.0 tv listings, etc. Many more.
While bottom-up approach, which can be considered the most effective way to form semantic web (remember: user generated content, user annotated data 
), is still need some love before it can really lift up, top-down approach ain’t to be merciful either. Clearforest has start this approach, recently release an extension (Gnosis) and web service API for it’s annotation service. Reviewed by Techcrunch, Clearforest’s Gnosis colorizes phrases on a web page and provide somekind of categorization (label/tag/annotation) in sidebar. Seemed to be a bit raw, but it’s quite impresive. And as suggested, added value can be obtained via creative mashup. Which apparently had been a contest (ProgrammableWeb, til Dec 11) but yet has no report on the result, ie: winner nor contestants and winner has been announced.
So, what would be cool in 2007? I have a hunch for Web 2.0 is looking pretty much saturated, which can be marked from the similar appearance each day but no where to be far some certain boundary, the platform will move to mobile. So it’d be Mobile 2.0. I’m betting all my money on the saturation of platform, though the lack of tools and framework for mobile 2.0 seems quite risking my huge (lack of expertise :p) bet 
.
Where are you betting?
apung 12:27 am on 12/20/2006 Permalink
Mas, mohon maaf nih.. saya tidak pernah mengatakan Google Co-op sudah deket dengan Semantic Web.
di blog saya tertulis:
Mengadaptasi bukan berarti mendekati.
Kenapa saya bilang mengadaptasi? Kalau saya pikir, Google Co-op itu mencoba untuk mencarikan apa yang kita cari sesuai dengan “keinginan” kita. Dalam hal ini Google Co-op (dalam bahasa saya) mengadaptasi konsep Semantic dengan tentunya bantuan dari “supply” user, seperti yang mas katakan.
Nah, dengan mulai “rame”nya semantic web diomong-omongin orang, Google muncul lah dengan Google Co-op untuk tetap di-setia-kan penggunanya.
CMIWW yah
toni 10:23 am on 12/20/2006 Permalink
@apung
Hueheheh, iya ya, saya salah mngambil kata-kata. Ini pasti terbawa keinginan unutk menyimpulkan bahwa Google Co-Op is no where near semantic web. mestinya kesipulan ini saya tambahkan ke blog mas Apung, cuman sayang kmmrn udah kena larangan komen di bawah 15 second (prasaan udah ditungguin lebih dari 15 seconds)
Soal mengadaptasi atau menyongsong Semantic Web, saya tidak setuju juga
. Karena bagi saya tetep no where near semantic. Dugaan saya Google mengeluarkan produk ini untuk terjun ke vertical search market, senyambi tak lupa menikmati benefit dari user generated content (dalam kasus ini: user filtered content). Seperti yang sudah banyak dibuktikan kesuksesanya oleh banyak layanan yang lain semisal YouTube, dll yang hidup dari user generated content.
Jika Google memang sudah terjun ke arah semantic web, I’m quite sure pendekatannya akan berbeda. berbeda seperti apa? Saya sendiri belum kepikiran. Tapi saya yakin google akan start dengan something yang simple yet smart
*pede banget*
Herman Saksono 7:57 pm on 12/20/2006 Permalink
Bukannya kamu nggak sempat liat internet karena sakit?
toni 8:15 pm on 12/20/2006 Permalink
@Herman Saksono
. Another entry for first fart can be discussed later.
Betul Mon .. terus kenapa? Gk suka?! Nangis? :p .. Apa saya perlu membuat post resmi tentang my first great blurp since friday?
Weeeek ..
Herman Saksono 11:45 am on 12/21/2006 Permalink
Capeee deeee