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Ashley Dupre nude pictures make semantic Web slightly less obscure

Larry Flynt is willing to pay Ashley Alexandra Dupré — the call girl who had something to do with what's-his-name from New York — $1 million to pose for Hustler. Imagine how much the Orlando Sentinel's website would have made from publishing Dupré's Girls Gone Wild photos back when Britney Spears hadn't yet made her cameo on CBS and Dupre still dominated the news cycle. With the right timing, it would have been bigger than Lindsay Lohan taking it of for New York magazine. But the Sentinel's loss can be your gain, "semantic Web" startups. The newspaper obviously blew it. The reason? More »

the future does not need us

Web 3.0, the first step towards computer takeover

People, have we not learned anything from moving pictures? Skynet, Omni Consumer Products, Cylons — heck, even the Borg? Do not entrust networks with intelligence. Things end poorly. Cybernetic killing machines aside, the semantic Web, otherwise known as Web 3.0, should still scare the bejeezus out of you. Radar Networks and Spock.com, two startups in the news, show us why we need to unplug Web 2.0 before it upgrades itself and no one can stop it. More »

dave winer

Web 3.0 is like a group hug

TIM FAULKNER — Dave Winer, web technology pioneer and prognosticator, is sharing his vision of Web 3.0, the buzzword that was cliché before it was even coined. Unfortunately but perhaps unsurprisingly, his prediction, or rather his aspiration, has little to do with the evolution of web applications or modes of expression; instead it amounts to a detente to the self-made feud between professional journalists and the blogosphere. More »

hype

Poland coming on strong with world class Web 2.0!

SCOTT KIDDER — Yeah yeah, we've all been Web 2.0ed out. After all, it's almost time for Web 3.0. But don't tell Poland — they're just getting started and are "coming on strong with world class Web 2.0!" More »

ny times

Why the New York Times is announcing Web 3.0

Page A1, Column 1 on a Sunday: the New York Times introduces the world to Web 3.0. It's "a layer of meaning on top of the existing Web" and "the foundation for systems that can reason in a human fashion." More »

eric schmidt

Hideous jargon watch: Google CEO drops the 3.0 bomb

Folks, we've been watching the news (so you don't have to) for the first instance of a major player dropping the words "Web 3.0." It's like waiting for the President to flip the bird. And this week, Eric Schmidt did it, right in the Financial Times. The Google CEO quoth: More »

zdnet

Just shoot me: ZDNet blogger says "Web 3.0" unironically

This just in! One of ZDNet's crazy bloggers has finally gone too far by saying the phrase "Web 3.0" THREE TIMES IN ONE ARTICLE. More »

tb-lee

Attack of the 3: Did the Internet's inventor say "Web 3.0"?

It's the Law of Accelerating Buzzwords: The phrase "Web 3.0" is already creeping — no, slamming — into the language like a katana into a bag of coffee beans, spilling all meaning onto the floor. Its scariest high-profile appearance: More »

confonz

ConFonz at ESC: I know what a database is, dammit

The Embedded Systems Conference — "where solutions come looking for great minds." Gee, sounds fun. Valleywag correspondent ConFonz dropped by and left dazed and confused. More »