Posts Tagged ‘Web of Data’
The Emerging Global Brain and the Internet’s Future
Thursday, January 5th, 2012A few interesting posts and seemingly-unrelated themes have been circulating around Google Plus for the past few weeks or so. These thoughts have, I believe, been spurred on by the impending threat of the insanity of the SOPA and PIPA legislation.
I see the issues of Internet censorship, access rights, and content reuse as part of a much larger phenomenon that many people are unaware. Whereas the Internet has been a revolutionary force in humanity’s communication capabilities, facilitating numerous societal, cultural, political, and economic changes, I believe that it is the emerging evolutionary changes fueled by the accelerating growth in technology that will bring about the most radical and fundamental transformation.
Let me lead you through my thinking. Read more »
Tags: evolution, freedoms, Singularity, SocialWeb, Synaptic Web, Web 3.0, Web of Data
Posted in Entrepreneurship & Leadership, Social Media & Semantic Web | 6 Comments »
Building the Social Web: the Layers of the Smartup Stack
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011<Smartups Series Part 5 of 5>
As a Social Web architect and an open source advocate I frequently write, think, and promote the notion and ideals of the Open and Social Web. My work in the areas of user-centric control (identity, privacy, data portability, and rights), federated Social Web models, future-of-money projects, and W3C standards groups has shaped my views presented here.
Soon after publishing my 4-part smartup series (almost a year ago), I began to think about key parts of what has become this article. I’ve had bits and pieces of this article jotted down in various places. Over the past three months, the ideas have coalesced into a cohesive framework. With a recent and lengthy process of helping a potential smartup try to find its foundation, I’ve been motivated to assemble, clarify, and share my views on what I call the layers of the smartup stack. Read more »
Tags: API, developers, FOSS, identity 2.0, leadership, Linked Data, privacy 2.0, smartups, SocialWeb, standards, startups, Web 3.0, Web of Data
Posted in Entrepreneurship & Leadership, Social Media & Semantic Web | 1 Comment »
Cybernetics, the Social Web, and the (Coming?) Singularity
Wednesday, July 20th, 2011Whereas you will find my insights and thoughts about the Social Semantic Web strewn throughout my website, this article is an attempt to extrapolate a few of those ideas in a more provocative and profound–if not frightening–way. So, you have be forewarned. Any resemblance to reality may be greatly over exaggerated!
Tags: Linked Data, nature, science, Singularity, Synaptic Web, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, Web of Data
Posted in Entrepreneurship & Leadership, Nanotechnology, Social Media & Semantic Web | 6 Comments »
Subverting the Open Web: Schema.org’s Scheme to Control Structured Data
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011When the initial news about Schema.org hit the Twitterverse two weeks ago, a few people asked for my opinion. Being the responsive, diligent, social-media maven that I am–who has close to zero free nanoseconds–I took a pathetically-cursory look at Google’s announcement and at the Schema.org website and quickly tweeted back this less-than-thoughtful response. Read more »
Tags: data silos, Linked Data, SocialWeb, Web 3.0, Web of Data
Posted in Entrepreneurship & Leadership, Social Media & Semantic Web | 3 Comments »
Who Should Own the Internet?
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
This image is a tracing of all the Internet traffic circa late 2006. It is licensed under a Creative Commons License (by-nc-sa/1.0) and created by http://opte.org/
As I began to compose a response to Nova’s query, it soon became clear that I had too much to say for a blog comment and decided that it was more fitting to write an article for my own site and then simply point Nova to it. Read more »
Tags: data silos, Facebook, freedoms, identity 2.0, leadership, privacy, privacy 2.0, SocialWeb, Web of Data, WebID
Posted in Entrepreneurship & Leadership, Social Media & Semantic Web | 1 Comment »
It’s Time for Blogging to Evolve
Saturday, March 5th, 2011The concept of blogging needs to evolve. Whereas Twitter and Facebook seem to have stolen some of the wind from blogging, I believe that netizens in general still desire to control their webspace and their webpresence. That is one reason that Diaspora–the upstart distributed social networking project–found initial funding success on Kickstarter. People want to have control over their content and privacy. They want to use their personal website as the anchor, as the foundation for their online communications. Read more »
Tags: data silos, Facebook, microblogging, SocialWeb, Twitter, Web of Data
Posted in Entrepreneurship & Leadership, Social Media & Semantic Web | 10 Comments »
The HyperWeb: it’s All About Connections
Friday, January 7th, 2011I recently came across this interesting graphic entitled Hierarchy of Visual Information. The author clearly states that it is a work in progress, just the genesis of an idea, a not-fully-formed thought. In fact, he rightly points out that this–in general–is not a new concept at all and provides a link to a Google image search result showing many incarnations of the data-information-knowledge-wisdom concept.
As I looked at his graphic, a different idea came to mind, a different interpretation of the concept in the context of the Web’s evolution. The hierarchical nature of the illustration made me think of the increasing complexity that comes with increasing connectivity. Read more »
Tags: Singularity, SocialWeb, Synaptic Web, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, Web of Data
Posted in Entrepreneurship & Leadership, Nanotechnology, Social Media & Semantic Web | 9 Comments »
The Web is Not (yet) Social
Tuesday, January 4th, 2011There is a common misunderstanding about the meaning of the phrase Social Web. I believe that most of the Web’s netizens think that the Web is social. But in fact the Web is not currently social.
Whereas Facebook, Twitter, FourSquare, and other ventures are social platforms, they are not the Web. These entities are only part of the Web—although it’s looking more and more “like” Facebook wants you to think that the Web equals Facebook. Read more »
Tags: data silos, Facebook, freedoms, identity 2.0, Linked Data, privacy 2.0, SocialWeb, Twitter, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, Web of Data
Posted in Entrepreneurship & Leadership, Social Media & Semantic Web | 1 Comment »
I’ve Got a Clot in My Klout: Influence Across a Distributed Social Web.
Tuesday, December 21st, 2010I’ve been a fan of Klout since its inception. I was a relatively early adopter of its services and believer in its ideal to become the standard for influence measurement. I still use Klout and believe in their vision. Why else would I place a Klout widget on my About Me page?
But there are two issues that I wish to address. Read more »
Tags: API, data silos, identity 2.0, Klout, SocialWeb, Twitter, Web of Data
Posted in Entrepreneurship & Leadership, Social Media & Semantic Web | 8 Comments »
Web 3.0 Smartups: the New Web Business Space
Tuesday, September 21st, 2010<Smartups Series Part 4 of 5>
This is the fourth article in my five-part series about Powering Startups to Become Smartups. In part 1, we discussed why Web-2.0 startups were stuck in the box and how in-the-box thinking leads to missed opportunities. In part 2, we discussed the most salient aspect of Web 3.0, the Web of Data and the emergence of the Social Web. Read more »
Tags: angel funding, exit strategy, investing, leadership, MicroAngels, smartups, SocialWeb, startups, venture capital, Web 3.0, Web of Data
Posted in Entrepreneurship & Leadership, Social Media & Semantic Web | 3 Comments »