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Writing for the Web 3.0 is written in a style similar to a web blog. There is useful information about web writing in this book, such as the description of what different types of web users prefer to see when they visit a website. At its best points the book would have benefited from a more linear writing style, which would have added clarity to the text. At its worst points the book is obscure, reading more like an esoteric essay than a practical book that will help you write better web copy.

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Franz Inc. has released version 3.0 of AllegroGraph, the industry’s first RDF database that combines very efficient geospatial data capabilities, temporal reasoning and social network analytics for storing and querying billions of RDF statements. The demand for new RDF databases is expanding rapidly with the growth of social networks, the emergence of the Semantic Web (3.0) and as companies seek more sophisticated tools to help them take advantage of their existing unstructured knowledge. AllegroGraph offers solutions for customers to address the challenge of storing and combining unstructured and structured data for new Web 3.0 style applications as well as new types of Business Intelligence for the Enterprise. Jans Aasman, CEO of Franz, said
“What Franz has developed in conjunction with our customers is a product that provides users an event based view on their data sets. Events here are broadly defined as things that have a particular type (meetings, communication events, purchases, financial transactions, hospital visits, terrorist attacks), a number of actors (a financial event has a payer, payee and the bank), a start time, an end time and a location where something happened.”
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Salesforce.com has initiated the platform-as-a-service concept, which company Chairman/CEO Marc Benioff also called Web 3.0, during an event that emphasized deployments of enterprise applications in the cloud. With platform-as-a-service, called Force.com, developers can deploy enterprise applications on-demand without having to provide infrastructure. According to Benioff, although the concept of platform as a service is relatively new, it has already gained traction.
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A collaborative research team led from the Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies (CARET) at the University of Cambridge has received a £1.5 million grant for an ESRC/EPSRC Technology-Enhanced Learning to explore new ways of using the World Wide Web to enhance teaching and learning. The team will examine the potential benefits to teachers, learners and researchers of using emerging ‘Semantic Web’ or ‘Web 3.0′ technologies.
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According to a recent press release from Social Technologies, by helping users to passively receive the information they need instead of actively filtering through irrelevant content, Web 3.0 will change the way people use the Internet. Web 3.0, which heralds the next era in the evolvement of World Wide Web, will be characterized by semantic Web services; reliance on Web-based applications; location-based services; and ambient intelligence devices. Semantic Web described Web data that is “tagged” with information about website content that makes it easier for computers to search for the data users are looking for.

“Tagged data would allow software to recognize relationships among information and filter out undesired search results, causing the Web to function more like a database. The semantic Web reduces the amount of time spent looking for desired information on the Web.”

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