Intrinsitivity

From what I have read about the evolution of the Web, keywords for Web 3.0 include:

• ubiquitous
• semantic
• personal
• modular
• scalable
• customizable
• stateful
• AI
• 3D
• VR
• immersive
• seamless

The list goes on. An attempt to categorize these keywords suggests the following related concepts:

• The Internet is everywhere.
• The Internet is part of your reality.
• The Internet is part of your identity.
• The Internet is aware of you.
• The Internet is alive.

In short, you will be assimilated.

Eric Schmidt Defines Web 3.0

Google CEO Eric Schmidt was recently at the Seoul Digital Forum and he was asked to define Web 3.0 by an audience member. After first joking that Web 2.0 is "a marketing term", Schmidt launched into a great definition of Web 3.0. He said that while Web 2.0 was based on Ajax, Web 3.0 will be "applications that are pieced together" – with the characteristics that the apps are relatively small, the data is in the cloud, the apps can run on any device (PC or mobile), the apps are very fast and very customizable, and are distributed virally (social networks, email, etc).

One of the objects shown on screen is a Web browser displaying Wikipedia’s home page. While watching this, it hit me that websites, as we know them today, will almost certainly disappear within the next, say, 5 to 10 years, being replaced with XML-based, user-defined, and user-driven presentations of two-, three-, and maybe even four-dimensional content. I can’t wait.

:: Perceptive Pixel ::

Perceptive Pixel, Inc. was founded by Jeff Han in 2006 as a spinoff of the NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences to develop and market the most advanced multi-touch system in the world.

I would like to thank Mike Potter of Flex.org for clarifying in a comment that I will in fact not be sent to Guantanamo Bay, after all, for disclosing the following fabulous freebies received at FlexCamp.

FlexCamp Freebies included:

1. a shiny new copy of Flex Builder 2 (w/ charting),
2. a shiny new copy of Programming Flex 2,
3. the official Flex beer mug,
4. a groovy black Flex t-shirt,
5. tons of Flex logo decals,
6. a FlexCamp Sharpie,
7. plenty of pizza,
8. and beer!

If I have left out anything, blame Samuel Adams.

FlexCamp’s agenda made the event informative as well as entertaining. I was also happy to be able to ask Air experts about the feasibility of executing one of my original thesis ideas, which was to make a 3D browser of sorts using Air. It turns out that this idea is feasible and I hope to bring it to life as a personal project over the summer. Woohoo!

Tags: flexcamp, Flex, Flash, Adobe, Air