What Might Web 3.0 Be?
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I was cruising around looking for cool stuff to tell you about today, and I came to a pretty sweet blog post that told me things I didn’t know about…
http://thefutureofsocial.com/7-very-likely-visions-of-social-networkings-future-is-this-web-30
Want to be a .tv star? Start your own TV channel on ustream.tv or not. I mean, some people were born to be in front of a camera. My daughter, for example, is totally photogenic, while I am totally not. I wouldn’t be a great candidate for my own .tv show. Maybe you would, though, and the beauty of this is that you totally CAN.
And what about a loan? I never knew there were such things as lending clubs, did you? I guess it’s kind of like a credit union, right? People join and members can lend/borrow money. People are making 18+% at this place: http://www.lendingclub.com/home.action and borrower are getting below bank rates.
Wow.
Can we really take back society?
I’d love to see the banks, drug companies, insurance companies, etc. who are ripping us off to the hilt totally humbled. This is a total aside to what this blog is about, but one of my asthma drugs–ONE– costs me $200 a month!
So, how’s the web going to go?
Seems you can’t apply to be a lender at The Lending Club anymore, until they get SEC approval. Hmm… wonder how that will go.
I also watched a video today from Jason Calacanis from Mahalo.com talking about how polluted the Web is becoming. He gave examples of how Usenet is dead because of all the damned spam there. I used to LIVE on Usenet. Breaks my heart.
He also mentioned that pay-to-post is dead. Google just gave the smackdown and banned some of those sites. No loss, in my opinion. People want me to post stuff about their products all the time, and they’re not even in my niche! I can’t tell you how many requests like that I’ve declined. I don’t often post about affiliate anything here.
To me, a blog is more about providing interesting information or entertainment before you include advertising. I know, it’s right there in my sidebar, and now and then in my posts, but not until I’ve given you something to think about. Right? Correct me if I’m dreaming.
Calacanis also said that “curation” is coming, meaning that eventually, all the ways we try to “game” the system, like posting to social sites and even SEO will be in the past because humans will become involved again and weed out all the dross.
His search engine, Mahalo, is a human edited SE, so it makes sense he would say that, but I can see it.
What’s wrong with pure content? AdSense sites are pretty much things of the past, which is good. I thought they sucked all along. No content, just a bunch of crap and AdSense links. People must have made money with them because there sure were a sh*tload of them at one time.
Who needs stuff like that, really? I mean, I’d much rather contribute to some of the cool things going on online than to add to the junk, wouldn’t you? Get a blog and write in it. Send new content to article directories and to social sites like Gather and my nemesis (but still a good site) Scribd.
Here’s the deal… When you give people good useful information, they’ll remember you. They’ll trust you, too, because you’ve most likely helped them to solve a problem and you need that trust if you’re ever going to sell them anything.
Become part of Web 3.0 and add to the quality of the Internet. I still think SEO is OK, as long as it’s just good solid practice, like keyword research and using the proper tags and stuff. But all that black hat stuff is just as Calacanis said just “pissing into the Web.”
I want the Internet to be the really cool place it is for the rest of my life, don’t you?
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Tags: AdSense, jason calacanis, lending club, pay-to-post, ustream.tv, web 3.0
July 14th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
What Might Web 3.0 Be?…
What we’re doing is forming the Web for the future. Are you providing good, solid content or just pissing into the wind?…
July 16th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
The first generation of the web gave us open access to information by those who posted it (mostly corporations).
The second generation of the web is a true democratization of information and services - from youtube to youporn, wikipedia to novelstorm. Everyone is getting on board, and the overload of information is become a tsunami.
I think web 3.0 will be a leveling of the access to data combined with full communities on line. More than chatting on line with friends, it is the chance to say “here are my 130 preferences, search the world for someone who agrees with all of this”. Then come a dozen matches from all over the world, of people who think like you but don’t look like you. Or, perhaps, disagree in a way that can bring broader discourse.
I’ve found many of the new sites give a chance to link up with those with similarly narrow technical skill sets that seek new applications for them, leading to interesting collaborations. Web 3.0 will allow online niche communities of similar interest sets that are still large enough to be social networks to form. From molten metal fluid flow dynamics thesis students (hubby, for example) or Six Sigma in IT (my niche), the ability to network is currently limited by the ability to FIND those with whom we want and need to network with.
Web 3.0 will bring that to the forefront.