I just stumbled upon this video which is a nice intro documentary on “Web3.0″ – or, as others might call it – the semantic web.

Web 3.0 from Kate Ray on Vimeo.

I have just a quick couple of thoughts on this, as certainly, I need to dig deeper into this:

• Additional meta-data must be implicit, thus no further human interaction to add meta-data should be necessary. This is even more necessary when it comes to item-to-item relationships, especially in the real world
• There will not be one semantic web, just as there is no one Google search results pages anymore. Everything will get filtered by prior knowledge about individual preferences and behaviours, which need to be harvested implicitly, as well. There is no one way of representing the world.
• It is necessary to make implicit data capture and analysis more widespread and accepted before notions of a “semantic web” will come to fruition.
• The term “Semantic Web” itself is misleading, as in the end, we are not talking about making sense of information on the web, which should prove to be hard enough, but make sense of the physical world around us.

Please let me know if you have further input or disagree with my statements.

PS: On a related note, Dustin Curtis has an interesting take on how the iPad and the “Death of Files” plays out. I’d argue that this points into the same direction.