Web 3.0 will Change the World – and Probably SEO Too
The Web 2.0 has been around for a few years now, and it has been exciting enough. It gave you a chance to shape a website yourself; and if you have a vision powerful enough, you could really shape the entire web even. But using the Internet today, to use search in particular, admittedly feels thoroughly last-century by most accounts. Today’s search experience is still very keyword-dependent; you could get very different results searching for, say, movies versus searching for films. Bing, especially, has received a lot of criticism for being too literal, and not trying to interpret a search, the way Google does.The next iteration of the Internet is around the corner ( a rather long corner); they call it the Web 3.0, and it’s all about putting a little intelligence into the way the Internet works. And will this ever be an SEO game-changer.If you ask your friend about what he thinks of the Yeti, what will he think Yeti means? If you are an anthropologist or a biologist, he may think you mean the rumored giant ape that is supposed to live in the icy upper reaches of the Himalayas. If you have no such special interests, he would probably think you meant the new SUV from Skoda that goes by that name. Web 3.0 is promoted as something that would be able to tell the difference. Web 3.0 is believed to achieve its additional insight into your searches, by keeping online an Internet profile of yours, that contains all the searching you ever did. Right now, if you are signed in to your iGoogle account, you could conceivably do something like this – it remembers all your searches. But the Web 3.0 experience is all about intelligence that can interpret this information. You can ask your search engine open-ended questions like, “Where should I go on vacation if I only have $4500 to spend?” And it should be able to look at different vacation packages based on places you’ve been to before, and places you’ve spoken about in your e-mails, look at all the different offerings on the Internet, and come up with a properly compiled results page.
There are currently intelligent music referring services even today that try to “understand” what your musical preferences are like, based on songs you already like. And it will try to look up all the new music that could fit your listening profile. But as anyone who’s tried a service like Pandora music explorer knows, the results of that artificial intelligence can often be very trying on the patience. Admittedly, science hasn’t advanced far enough to make Web 3.0 a reality. The intelligence comes from what they call Ontologies. An Ontology is a file that contains collections of information, and additional information on how everything in the file is related together. In fact, this was a part of the way the Internet was envisioned when it was first designed back in the 80s by Tim Berners-Lee. Software agents, automated web crawlers, use Ontologies to understand your browsing habits, and looks around the Internet for you. These Ontology files will be created manually, by people who donate their time – sort of a Wikipedia for computers, not people. Once the browser (and it would be called a semantic browser) is able to think for itself based on this information, undoubtedly, learning, knowledge, and science itself will change beyond recognition. SEO will probably need to evolve as well.
Did GeoCities Give Birth to Web 2.0?
Twelve years ago, what everyone felt they needed was their own home page on the Internet. That was the thing to do, even if what to do with one once they had it no one really knew. They just laid out grammatically poor content in red fonts against a green background and decorated it with spinning Christmas trees. But GeoCities gave people what they wanted – a home page in minutes with no knowledge of web design or HTML. And those people made it the third most successful website on the Internet. Of course it was primitive; this was what taught the social networking and Web 2.0 giants of today their very first lessons in social networking. Yahoo was so impressed with the impression Geocities made on people, it rushed in and bought it out for more than three billion dollars. Yahoo was on to something: Geocities was a website that ran entirely on user-generated content, and it sold advertising to display on all sides of the content. It was the first stab the world had at user-generated Internet, popularly known today as Web 2.0.
But GeoCities offered people no social networking; you could put out your own content, but if it was poorly thought-out, people stopped visiting. The thrill of GeoCities wore off over the last decade; the costs of keeping it running proved to be too irritating to Yahoo, which recently decided enough was enough. The quiet impact Geocities always had on people around the world, and the 10 million visitors it gots every month was obvious when news of its closure broke. Twitter users put out tearful obituaries for the dear, if unattractive friend they always had in GeoCities. People can’t believe that the little things that put down as truly worthwhile ten years ago – their crazy personal bios, the songs they uploaded, the links to long-lost resources, are all gone today
Should Yahoo have preserved the clutter of GeoCities just to save people’s feelings? GeoCities 23 million pages occupied only about 10 TB – nothing burdonesome for a corporation like Yahoo to maintain. Perhaps this is a sign of things to come. Ten years from now, how will you feel if you check one day, and your videos on YouTube have disappeared?
iSocial to empower webmasters to compete in the networking world
Social networking is the fastest growing activity on Web 2.0 – the basic idea behind it is socializing. Everyone has started socializing with each other for nurturing friendship and business. iSocial is a powerful social networking script that helps webmasters build an effecient, user-friendly social networking site.One can make money on social networking sites through monthly subscriptions and at large, they can make money by placing advertisements. To make money, start an elegant website with a concept that could attract more visitors. A website could make money, only when the website attracts the attention of people towards itself.
iSocial facilitates webmasters to build a RIA-based website which offers a responsive and seamless interface to users. With RIA, users can get fast page loading, easy navigation and smooth handling of site. The Open social developer network in iSocial lets developers with standard JavaScript and HTML create apps that access a social network’s friends and update feeds.
Similar to Facebook connect, iSocial comes with iSocial connect to help users carry their credential data to other sites integrated with iSocial connect API. The photo snap features comes with the techniques- clear, filter, distort, frame and scene. The unique features of iSocial don’t stop with this, it includes open ID, multi-lingual support, Shindig and applications, videos, photos, customizable classifieds and much more.
“We are proud to launch the iSocial script with extraordinary features in the web masters’ networking world. We hope they can satisfy their users and earn more moeny with our iSocial script and recommend our excellent script to their friends” said Ms. Sheerin, the Vice President of Ahasan.
iSocial is one more hot product from Ahsan Technologies, a leading provider of Web 2.0 applications and experts in social networking software for business enterprises and startups.
For more details, visit http://www.isocial.in
Here’s Your Cheque For $850m…
Imagine being given a cheque for $850m. Seriously, think about it for a second. The interest alone would net you a cool $29,750,000 every year in the US. Not sure about you, but I think that’s a serious chunk of change.
Let’s take another figure, say $225m. OK, given the choice between $850m and $225m it’s obvious which one you’d take, but forgive me if I bite the hand off the person who offers me $225m for my website.
So, what on Earth am I talking about here? Believe it or not, these are the latest figures for corporate take overs of Bebo and Digg respectively.
Bebo is a large social networking site that claims to have over 40m users worldwide. It is the 3rd largest social network after MySpace and Facebook (both of which were bought for $580m and $280m).
But large buyouts of this kind are not confined to the big players, in 2007 a facebook clone (literally down to the last detail!) called Studivz was bought out by a single investor for $132m. The unique thing about Studivz was that it was aimed at a niche (albeit a fairly broad niche). The niche was a social network for German speaking people.
So, like Studivz, how can you jump on this bandwagon of massive buyouts (and lets face it, I think we’d all be quite happy with a paltry $10m)? First off, target a niche – whether it be by country, region, language, interest, cause or whatever. The days of being able to start large generic social networks are over. It is the time of the niche social network.
Define your niche properly before you start, and you too could get a knock at your door with someone trying to offer you millions for your little piece of the web.
Interested in finding out how you can set up your own turnkey social networking software? Want to run a face like YouTube? Think you can make a better job of Facebook (let’s be honest, with the countless thousands of ‘apps’ now available, it’s becoming more like MySpace everyday)?
Come and check out Agriya’s Social Networking software, with turnkey prices starting at just $399.
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