Posts Tagged with ‘web-3.0’

Almost a year and a half ago, Colbert Low posted here on Profy that the future of the Web would be 3D applications, or virtual worlds, with Second Life leading the pack. It's amazing to me that so much could have changed in such a short amount of time.
Today it was announced EA Land, which was formerly called The Sims Online and rebranded only a short time ago, will be shuttering before the end of summer. The Sims Online was [...]

Marshall Kirkpatrick's Twine review initially set off my post asking what the perception is of an application's status. It also set off a flurry of buzz about Twine, the private beta from the team at Radar Networks.
I took advantage of our outage yesterday to really spend time poking around in Twine, which defines itself as a semantic web application. I always approach anything that claims it can learn anything about me and provide a true semantic experience, but I'm so [...]

A new online travel site is launching Monday. Before you add to the collective groan, know that Zicasso isn't like other travel sites, and is really worth checking out.
Geared to fill a gap in online trip planning, Zicasso wants to make travel planing much more personalized and hassle-free. Combining online convenience with offline providers, they offer a new way to book travel, leaving you able to book your travel at 3 AM while still having the services offered by online [...]

Playyoo just launched a public beta mobile social networking platform that allows game developers to interface with users. Playyoo's Game Streams are an easy way to discover and download games by utilizing intelligent filtering to ensure that only relevant games from within their networks. The big draw for this service is that developers can create their own Adobe Flash Lite games and then distribute them to the community. This news is accompanied by the announcement that Playyoo is sponsoring a [...]

Freerice.com - an online fundraising effort by John Breen, has really taken off and has obtained enough rice to feed 50,000 people. The Internet fundraiser uses a food linked word game tied to ad revenue raise money for the United Nations World Food Programme.
Visitors to Freerice play a multiple choice game that generates 10 grains of rice per click. The site has become a rather viral success story in a very short time and has raised awareness to this [...]

Hakia is rolling out yet another aspect of their semantic search technology today. MO (or meet others) exhibits another interesting aspect of “search” by allowing people to meet other people entertaining the same queries. By adding this P2P social element to search, hakia is effectively spreading semantics (or meaning) across a much wider spectrum and toward true answers and understanding. Users simply click on the MO icon after making a query and they are taken into rooms where people have [...]

When will we arrive at Web 3.0? I really had no idea there were so many theories until I went to my old standby Wikipedia to get some ideas for what we have in store. Over the last year or so I have probably loosely used the term Web 3.0 to describe one great innovation or other a dozen times. For me, Web 3.0 has, to a large extent, been a term to differentiate technologies. I expect this is true [...]

Today, at the Web 2.0 Summit, Radar Networks has announced the beta launch of its innovative new semantic web service known as Twine. It is consequentially being touted as the first mainstream Web 3.0 application.
In basic terms, Twine will provide a central hub that connects information from around the web in one location. This includes several different file types, for instance photos, videos, documents, news stories, RSS feeds, bookmarks, contacts or anything.
The concept, developed to provide a “smarter way to [...]

Holy Cow! Just when you thought Internet marketers had you cornered on every website known to man, Procter and Gamble - the soap opera and soap moguls aim to wash Web 2.0 brains and clothes. The company now offers for your PC and cellphone enjoyment - “Crescent Heights”- an online cit-com/soap opera. This series aimed at young surfers and ring-tone freaks is about a recent college graduate (Ashley) who moves from Cheesehead country to LA. The 3 minute episodes are [...]