The time before web 2.0 word was coined got web pages in the Internet which were less powerful then what we have today ‘The Internet Web Application‘. Some of the changes that we can see transparently in web application today are in the side of usability and design. The most generalization of web 2.0 concept was making the web writable and shareable. Before Information was solely published by the web site owner and most of the users only interact with the information, though still some sites provided users to write reviews, there was not any model like collaborative, sharing and community that has been more popular these days.

Those are still the old days, many extensions from writable web has been popular now with not only ability to share content but to present ourselves to the internet virtual world with our belongings and identity or more specifically we are now part of the internet social media.  All they pose the characteristics that many talks about what web 2.0 platform should have? Still the next stage of web becomes controversial.

Different People consider the next era of web application by buzzword’s like web 3.0…or semantic web etc. Some of the areas we saw changes while leaping to web 2.0 eras were

1. Technology used to deliver the final result- XMLHTTP

2. The depth of Information provided to users- MASHUPS

3. The way users use the application- SOCIAL MEDIA

4. The Business or revenue model -USER GENERATED CONTENT/ Ad/ Subscription

Another area that may be considered for the next stage in delivering the final application to the users can be:

1. Information Organization in WWW- SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGY

2. The Browser Technology- W3C STANDARD, WEB APPLICATION INTEGERATION (flock)

3. Enhancement of communication technology- BANDWIDTH, HARDWARE ACCELETOR

4. Results from the web search- SEMANTIC INDEXING, NLP

5. Business Model (Always there)- SEMANTIC ADVERTISING..

Though new concepts and technology may be implemented in the next era web application, it will not be all that new; they will still inherit characteristics from web 2.0 model with some or all of the above mentioned features included.

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Social media differs from the traditional media with it unique feature of ‘openness’. Media of the old times are mostly one way sharing of information. Broadcasting television video or audio are not that interactive as the online media we have today. Social media is particularly interactive sharing of information in words, pictures, videos and audio.

The below listed are some important characteristic of social media:

• Involvement- the wall between media and the audiences is transparent
• Openness- no password protected content, everyone is able to give feedback
• Discussion- social media is two way sharing thus interactive
• Community- encourage grouping people of common interest
• Connectedness- relations (for e.g. Worked together) connects people making a social graph

Today we have different kinds of media in our life and we are growing the overall social graph by joining such media especially the social network. Following is a list of social media type with example

1.  Social Networks- These are the media platform where we are connected with people for sharing and communication. Examples are FaceBook, LinkedIn and MySpace.

2. Blogs- Blogs are cheap media to share information. Everybody can have blog today with free provider like BlogSpot from Google or TypePad from SixApart.

3. Podcasts: Podcast were first introduce by Apple and are popular audio media found online. For e.g. we can find as many podcast from here.

4. Forums- Forums are traditional and most used media for discussion. BoardTracker is a comprehensive search engine to search discussion that monitors over 40,000 forum

5. Content Communities- These are the platform targeted for sharing of media of particular kind. Popular one is Flickr for sharing images, YouTube and Hulu for sharing videos, Delicious for sharing bookmarks.

6. Collaborative Platforms:  Wikis are the most popular in this kind of media that shares knowledge and information both. It gives people to add or edit content.  The most popular one is Wikipedia which has more than 2 million articles added by the public.

7. Micro Blogging: Micro Blogging was made popular by Twitter which is an integrated platform of social network and blogs which usually provides users to update content from wireless devices. Some examples are Yammer, Jaiku and Pownce.

Social media are the platforms that are never going to fade away. Enjoy your life.

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Search inside semantic web will give users relevant results to the user’s query. Today’s Search Engine are based on keyword and retrieves information from unstructured source. Search application of semantic web will be designed to improve traditional Information Retrieval (IR) in order to overcome the shortcomings of the keyword-based technique in respond to information selection requests model that we have today.

Semantic Web is an extension of actual World Wide Web that aims to web content machine understandable, allowing agents and applications to access a variety of heterogeneous resources. The concept selection mechanism will be a novel, scalable disambiguation algorithm using domain specific ontology. This algorithm will prune irrelevant concepts while allowing relevant concepts to become associated with documents and participate in generating users intended result.

Today’s search such as Google, Yahoo and Live outputs well unless there is no conflict information in the documents in WWW and queries. For example a searcher inputs the query ‘bank interest charge‘ to the search engines hoping to get results that will give information about the bank interest charges or some results related to financial banking. Many search engines outputs the result on the basis of partial match or full match, thus also output results like ‘Police in riot gear charged the lines of demonstrators‘ or ‘many people have interest to roam around bank of river‘, which are completely irrelevant to the user’s query. Another aspect is that user may be not complete in describing his information needs, for example users may input their query ‘flower plants‘ but in traditional search the  result would not be so intelligent that it will out put all information about flower. For instance the document that contains ‘rose‘ or ‘lily‘, which are indeed flowers, may not be presented to the user.

So what after next 10 years when semantic web becomes possible? We will be getting broad information excluding irrelevant results when searching inside semantic web. Every prune information will be excluded from the results providing most useful and close information that relates to the users query.

(8 votes, average: 4.63 out of 5)

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