Mar
08
2007
Sask Interactive….The web after 20 years; a convergence or divergence of ideas?
Posted by: Dean Shareski in Conferences, changeBlogged Live
Chris Brooks and Scott Bateman
Focus on Artificial Intelligence and Web 2.0
- Smart agents….software which autonomously interacts with its environment
- Intelligent agents can adapt and learn from each other by observing their environment and interacting (example…Clippy…not a very good one)
- Semantic Web hasn’t fully developed and is limited to niche areas not used broadly
- Web 0….Few to Many
- Web 1.0 Many to Everybody
- Web 2.0 Everybody to Everybody
- While these ideas were happening in academia, a parallel movement was happening called Web 2.0
- AJAX is allowing us to use our web browsers like applications
- Refers to blogs as online diaries…(Alan are you listening?)
- Talks about the Long Tail
- Importance of diversity in environments and products
- Amazon use of suggested products
- Shows the Kansas State video The Machine is Us
- Limitations of Web 2.0…millions of blogs to sort through
- Refining tags
- AI isn’t ready to automate many of these features but is necessary to deal with the larger set of data
- Semantic Web uses machines…Web 2.0 uses people…NEED CONVERGENCE
Thoughts: Interesting ideas…important theories to consider
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March 8th, 2007 at 10:13 am
In terms of convergence, check out Seth Godin’s post about the convergence of the data in the semantic web with human activity, in what he describes as Web 4.0.
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/01/web4.html