I have been doing research on Web 3.0 for the past couple of days for a presentation our group has to give next week. All of the articles I have read are very vague and no one really has a set definition on what it will entail. The buzz word that keeps coming up is the Semantic Web coined by Tim Berners-Lee. This more or less means that computers will be able to better understand what we are looking for and provide more meaningful results.

One of the examples that I read was asking your computer to check your calendar and compare it to available appointments with doctors in a 5-mile radius. The computer would then be able to provide you with results. In an interview with James Hendler, he says, “What the traditional Web does for the text documents in our lives, the Semantic Web does for all our data and information.” This brings up a privacy issue of how much data is available on us via the Internet. I think this is already a big concern among some Internet users, so will there be even more skepticism about the Internet in the future? It makes me wonder if some people will take a step back from the technology and say it is to invasive, or will they embrace it and further its growth.

There are several companies already investing millions of dollars in this new technology. I think it will provide us with new ways of using the Internet that we never imagined before. I just hope that computers don’t become too smart and destroy us all…that’s probably way in the future though…at least 10 years.

Sorry for the delay in postings. Things have been crazy with school and work. I started a new class a couple of weeks ago. It is taught by the same professor as my first class, so I kind of knew what to expect. There is definitely a lot more work, hence my lack of posts. The class is more or less how the Internet has changed and will continue to change businesses.

I just finished with my mid term and a group presentation. I have a paper due on Thursday that should be pretty easy. I just have to analyze a website and give my opinion on it. Since I work in the financial industry, I decided to analyze a bank. Check it out…www.umpquabank.com. The are based in Portland, OR and were rated one of the top 100 companies to work for in 2008 by CNN. I heard about them when I was doing a lot of market research in the banking industry. I always thought they were ahead of the curve on technology and catered more towards younger generations. Either way, it should be a fairly easy paper.

I still have a lot of projects due in the next couple of weeks, but hopefully it won’t be to unmanagable. I will try to do a better job of updating…when I can find the time.