ade's ink

'something is missing and it's not you'

'i lost my wantanmee'

'who drank my coffee'

hmmm...reading back these status notes that I posted on Facebook, something's gonna happen.

Circa 1996

Old wing of One U.

We were there for one of your propping trips, I think.

You took large steps; I had a hard time catching up.

Just as I did, you pulled my arm and we swerved into MPH.

I trailed behind you to the Lil Miss racks.

You picked one up and started flipping the pages.

And walked away to the cashier, leaving me standing with curious.

At the exit,

“Na, for you”

“What’s this?” I asked

“This is you. The sunflower”

“Oh, thanks”

We continued walking like a regular day.

In retrospect, it was simple beautiful.

We were strange friends but we are estrange now.

Ade wants it regular

While researching for a digital project few months back, someone popped the question on what’s after WEB 2.0… duh, WEB 3.0.

So I started sleuthing around…asking the experts, reading the whites and scouring the web. No one could give me a definite answer and that’s not surprising either. Just like the 'coming soons' of high def movies (I can’t tell the diff when I see one) and high speed broadband in our backyards, we find it harder to imagine the highest of anything when it's not there yet.

To frame the context as to why i'm still seeking for a better explanation, you need to read these quotes:-

Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web stated:[16]

People keep asking what Web 3.0 is. I think maybe when you've got an overlay of scalable vector graphics—everything rippling and folding and looking misty—on Web 2.0and access to a semantic Web integrated across a huge space of data, you'll have access to an unbelievable data resource.

At the Seoul Digital Forum in May 2007, Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, was asked to define Web 2.0 and Web 3.0.[17] He responded:

Web 2.0 is a marketing term, and I think you've just invented Web 3.0. But if I were to guess what Web 3.0 is, I would tell you that it's a different way of building applications... My prediction would be that Web 3.0 will ultimately be seen as applications which are pieced together. There are a number of characteristics: the applications are relatively small, the data is in the cloud, the applications can run on any device, PC or mobile phone, the applications are very fast and they're very customizable. Furthermore, the applications are distributed virally: literally by social networks, by email. You won't go to the store and purchase them... That's a very different application model than we've ever seen in computing.


At the Technet Summit in November 2006, Jerry Yang, founder and Chief of Yahoo, stated:[18]

Web 2.0 is well documented and talked about. The power of the Net reached a critical mass, with capabilities that can be done on a network level. We are also seeing richer devices over last four years and richer ways of interacting with the network, not only in hardware like game consoles and mobile devices, but also in the software layer. You don't have to be a computer scientist to create a program. We are seeing that manifest in Web 2.0 and 3.0 will be a great extension of that, a true communal medium...the distinction between professional, semi-professional and consumers will get blurred, creating a network effect of business and applications.

At the same Technet Summit, Reed Hastings, founder and CEO of Netflix, stated a simpler formula for defining the phases of the Web:

Web 1.0 was dial-up, 50K average bandwidth, Web 2.0 is an average 1 megabit of bandwidth and Web 3.0 will be 10 megabits of bandwidth all the time, which will be the full video Web, and that will feel like Web 3.0.

I'm sorry but I still don't get what it means for the regular people on the streets.

Yet, the concept of WEB 3.0 intrigues me because it feels like a much needed antidote to the cliché phrase “I’m information overload”. So, in my own humble intepretation, I think WEB 3.0 is the web's attempt of thinking - putting scattered information into an order that make sense (for a human being). It is less of analytics, more about semantics. The web will become your default thinking cap, and it could...and possibly...make your analogue mind defunct! (drama.)

As theorists continue writing more complex whites about this so-called evolution, I hunch that we are already experiencing some form of it. Maybe I'm wrong because I can't quote a good example now - can someone shed a light?