Why a washing machine and two cats are the future of the web.
Tags: internet, orwellian, RFID, semantic web
A few blogposts back I mentioned the 3 big things that I think is going to happen to the internet. One of them was the idea that Standard API will be developed to connect hardware to the internet. As more and more interactions that happen in the real world get sent to the cloud, the greater the semantic web will be able to serve us.
If the cloud automatically knows what products I buy in my nearest supermarket, it can start recommending me products I might like. If I connect my oven to the cloud, it catalogs what recipes I use. It can then start recommending me new recipes that I might find interesting. The list goes on!
Currently, the cloud knows few things. Amongst others it knows what music we listen to. It is currently restricted to actions we do with a computer. The interactions should be extended to things outside the computer: into the real world. It is here where our interactions with the environment can be gathered.
It is already starting to happen. What might seem gimmicky, I believe is the future of the web.
Meet Gus And Penny and PiMPY3Wash. The unlikely candidates for the future of the web. Their interactions are connected to the cloud. While the data they submit is meaningless, the prinicple is spot on. It is only a matter of time before it is expanded to human interactions.
I must admit, all my talking seems Orwellian… Would we give up our privacy for better services? You decide.
The best of Twitter is ahead!
Tags: google, semantic web, twitter
“We believe the best of Twitter is yet to come”.
Except for tweeting “what I am doing” or posting interesting links, I’ve been asking lots of questions on Twitter… and usually before I venture to Google if someone doesn’t respond.
I’ve gotten great replies to great sites and with good reason. Google don’t have that extra human aspect that they add into their search. Two sites can be practically identical and could be close to each other on Google’s search results, but because people have visited that site, THEY know and understand my question and can distinguish between small (yet profound) things that Google can’t pick up (yet).
And really. Let’s be honest here. We trust another human’s reply to a question much more than any computer would.
So, I read here that Twitter is working on something like Yahoo! Answers, something I’ve been wanting for a long time. And as they say. It is less cluttered and much faster.
“You put a question out to the global mind, and it comes back,” Mr. Chaffee explained. “Millions of people are contributing to the knowledge base. The engine is alive. You get feedback in real time from people, not just documents.”
It makes me think that WE are becoming the semantic web. Twitter can if they want to, store questions. If you ask a similar question, it returns what users answered. Voila. Semantic Web.
Just AWESOME.
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