Nova Spivack (born June 5, 1969) is an entrepreneur, semantic web pioneer, and technology visionary. He has co-founded EarthWeb in 1994, Radar Networks in 2003 and the San Francisco Web Innovators Network (SFWIN). He is also the founder of Lucid Ventures. He is the grandson of Peter Drucker, the management consultant guru.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Spivack
Nova Spivack defines Web 3.0 as the third decade of the Web (2010–2020) during which he suggests several major complementary technology trends will reach new levels of maturity simultaneously including:
• transformation of the Web from a network of separately siloed applications and content repositories to a more seamless and interoperable whole.
• ubiquitous connectivity, broadband adoption, mobile Internet access and mobile devices;
• network computing, software-as-a-service business models, Web services interoperability, distributed computing, grid computing and cloud computing;
• open technologies, open APIs and protocols, open data formats, open-source software platforms and open data (e.g. Creative Commons, Open Data License);
• open identity, OpenID, open reputation, roaming portable identity and personal data;
• the intelligent web, Semantic Web technologies such as RDF, OWL, SWRL, SPARQL, GRDDL, semantic application platforms, and statement-based datastores;
• distributed databases, the “World Wide Database” (enabled by Semantic Web technologies);
Web 3.0, a phrase coined by John Markoff of the New York Times in 2006, refers to a supposed third generation of Internet-based services that collectively comprise what might be called ‘the intelligent Web’—such as those using semantic web, microformats, natural language search, data mining, machine learning, recommendation agents, and artificial intelligence technologies—which emphasize machine-facilitated understanding of information in order to provide a more productive and intuitive user experience.
It is just a simple picture about the developement, but very useful.
The Semantic Web (or Web 3.0) promises to “organize the world’s information” in a dramatically more logical way than Google can ever achieve with their current engine design. This is specially true from the point of view of machine comprehension as opposed to human comprehension.The Semantic Web requires the use of a declarative ontological language like OWL to produce domain-specific ontologies that machines can use to reason about information and make new conclusions, not simply match keywords.
Web 3.0 is one of the terms used to describe the evolutionary stage of the Web that follows Web 2.0. Given that technical and social possibilities identified in this latter term are yet to be fully realized the nature of defining Web 3.0 is highly speculative. In general it refers to aspects of the Internet which, though potentially possible, are not technically or practically feasible at this time.
Following the introduction of the phrase “Web 2.0″ as a description of the recent evolution of the Web, the term “Web 3.0″ has been introduced to hypothesize about a future wave of Internet innovation. Views on the next stage of the World Wide Web’s evolution vary greatly, from the concept of emerging technologies such as the Semantic Web transforming the way the Web is used (and leading to new possibilities in artificial intelligence) to the observation that increases in Internet connection speeds, modular web applications, and advances in computer graphics will play the key role in the evolution of the World Wide Web.
RFID is not the most important thing nin the life but is my whim. I belive in the technologies of the future.
1. First step, waht is RFID means?
R: Radio F: Frequency ID: Identification
It is an automatic identification method, relying on storing and remotely retrieving data using devices called RFID tags or transponders. The technology requires some extent of cooperation of an RFID reader and an RFID tag. An RFID tag is an object that can be applied to or incorporated into a product, animal, or person for the purpose of identification and tracking using radio waves. Some tags can be read from several meters away and beyond the line of sight of the reader.
2. How many parts has RFID?
Most RFID tags contain at least two parts. One is an integrated circuit for storing and processing information, modulating and demodulating a radio-frequency (RF) signal, and other specialized functions. The second is an antenna for receiving and transmitting the signal.
3. The types of RFID:
There are generally two types of RFID tags: active RFID tags, which contain a battery, and passive RFID tags, which have no battery.
4. Current uses: Library
Among the many uses of RFID technologies is its deployment in libraries. This technology has slowly begun to replace the traditional barcodes on library items (books, CDs, DVDs, etc.). The RFID tag can contain identifying information, such as a book’s title or material type, without having to be pointed to a separate database (but this is rare in North America). The information is read by an RFID reader, which replaces the standard barcode reader commonly found at a library’s circulation desk. The RFID tag found on library materials typically measures 50 mm X 50 mm in North America and 50 mm x 75 mm in Europe. It may replace or be added to the barcode, offering a different means of inventory management by the staff and self service by the borrowers. It can also act as a security device, taking the place of the more traditional electromagnetic security strip [24] And not only the books, but also the membership cards could be fitted with an RFID tag.
While there is some debate as to when and where RFID in libraries first began, it was first proposed in the late 1990s as a technology that would enhance workflow in the library setting. Singapore was certainly one of the first to introduce RFID in libraries and Rockefeller University in New York may have been the first academic library in the United States to utilize this technology, whereas Farmington Community Library in Michigan may have been the first public institution, both of which began using RFID in 1999. In Europe, the first public library to use RFID was the one in Hoogezand-Sappemeer, the Netherlands, in 2001, where borrowers were given an option. To their surprise, 70% used the RFID option and quickly adapted, including elderly people.
Worldwide, in absolute numbers, RFID is used most in the United States (with its 300 million inhabitants), followed by the United Kingdom and Japan. It is estimated that over 30 million library items worldwide now contain RFID tags, including some in the Vatican Library in Rome.
from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio-frequency_identification#Libraries
5. Adventages of RFID:
ActiveWave systems use RFID, or Radio Frequency Identification technology. Radio frequency (RF) technology is commonly used to transmit and receive information without wires. A wide variety of electronic devices such as television, radio, and wireless telephone use radio frequency technology to transmit or receive information.
ActiveWave RFID solutions use modern wireless technologies to help your business track inventory and equipment. An ActiveWave RFID system is composed of an RFID reader, a standard Windows based PC, and RFID tags or transponders. The RFID tag is attached or placed inside of the equipment or inventory. ActiveWave RFID tags contain micro electronic circuits that store product information. The tags transmit this information to a remote RFID reader.
from: http://www.activewaveinc.com/technology_rfid_advantage.php
6. Disadvantages:
With the growing popularity of RFID many security experts are debating if the advantages of RFID outweigh its disadvantages. One disadvantage in particular that they are worried about is their growing concern that RFID technology might allow others to violate someone’s trust and privacy. This is not only a concern for analysts as 21% of the consumers who are familiar with RFID technology are afraid it will be used by companies to track purchases, while 81% would feel better if the tag was removed before leaving the store.
However, companies such as Microsoft see RFID in the future being used to help people locate things in their home, whereas VeriChip Corp thinks that having a chip implanted in you with information about your medical illnesses could help medics.
However, the use of RFID for tracking individuals might soon be possible with identity documents.
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7. Videos from youtube:
An average user does not know the technical achievement of a library. But it will be very important in the future, because they should use the new systems. I think tht RFID chips’s small size and low cost makes them ideal for tracking objects, animals and people. So, wikipedia give a hand to the average people. I found plenty of articles of RFID in wikipedia, but only two article contains particular informations about this theme.
1. Radio Frequency IDentification
Radio-frequency identification is an automatic identification method, relying on storing and remotely retreving data using devices called RFID tags or transponders. The technology reguires some extent of cooperation of an RFID reader and an RFID tag.
This article contains: history, current uses (for example library), potential uses, regulation and standardizations, problems and concerns, controversies, references.
This article is very useful, relevant and reliable. An RFID Guardian electronic device was designed as a defense against unwanted RFID snooping. It is a small, battery-powered electronic device that can be carried around to warn its owner that a new RFID tag has been placed in his or her vicinity or that his or her tags are currently being scanned. It is doubtful whether such device will serve in advanced RFID reader environments of today (2008).
3. The others
The other articles are very simply, and contains just a few informations. But they are relevant
Just watch this little video if you don’t know what about I am speaking :
One of the most important exercise the organization of the pent-up information in the future. Otherwise the information’s society will be in danger. The first solve of the problem is the UDI. But it is not the best idea becasue it’s not very clear to an average people.
For example Google has always stated that its mission is to organize the world’s information. Of course, the problem with that is not all of the world’s information is online, meaning that Google has needed to reach out and try to pull more information online. But we must thinking about thoose poeple how haven’t got internet connection, so organization and accessible is very hard chellenge nowadays.
But:
So maybe the time has come for a radical re-thinking. Maybe it’s time to think web first and publish the newspaper from the work done to fill the web site instead of the other way around. By doing so you re-focus your newsroom to think of the big news picture. Databases, maps, widgets, multimedia, the whole shebang become the standard fair and the paper, that ultimate niche product, is built as a secondary product using just the “traditional” news stories from the web site that work so well in print.
an example, how to organize your informations:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5Q16uP2ER8
Learn to organize information and build information systems:
2009. february 2.
Latina 1 started today morning. The first step was the meeting. Everybody spoke a pair of sentence about himself/herself and her or his home region. After that we heard an interesting presentment about the developement of people´s life. We spoke about the big stations of this developement especially about nowadays and the remediation. We saw plenty of videos so the lesson was very interactive. It was good for librariens and teachers who want to develop their educational skills on the World Wide Web.
I hope tomorrow will be similar good than today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IDUxk9sSXI 
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