Feed grazing and web 3.0

February 10th, 2006 * Comments(0)

I’m suprised they’re not calling it web 3.0 beta but I guess the beta suffix is oh so web 2.0.

Anyway, some people seem to think that web 2.0 is too old school, gone with the wind so to speak, so they came up with concepts we might see in the future of the web.

 Anne Zelenka might be a good start. She describes it as:

In Web 3, the basic Web element is more granular. I don’t know what to call the individual elements, but each has its own URI. This is the semantic web, the read/write/process web, the active web. The web will “know” so much of itself via semantic technologies like RDF that tasks that previously required human input will be able to be handled mostly by computer algorithm. The web’s greater level of understanding means that users can go further than publishing their thoughts, they can create programs that help them achieve broader goals. Better yet, the active web itself can create and run programs to help users achieve their goals online.

 EirePreneur gives us a nice graphical comparison between web 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 as well as an introduction into the concept of feed grazing.

And finally –  Richard MacManus explains what feed grazing actually is.

I think they’re onto something. Obviously information overload is becoming a major problem, Fragmentation and mashup of content might be the key here and we see it happening already but the concept of feed grazing is going beyond that if I understand correctly. Just where and how, from the user perspective, remains a bit of a blur to me at the moment.

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