Vandaag volg ik via een aantal aanwezigen en de weblog The next web 2008 vanuit België. Het is mijn eerste keer dat ik zoiets probeer te volgen puur via web. Toch wel een toffe ervaring. Zeker als de WIFI ter plaatse het soms laat afweten en de twitteraars soms twi—-tt—ere—nd overkomen 😉

Toch wel een aantal interessante input gekregen:

Gil Penchina: “Give your customers insane levels of control”

  • “When giving away control is done right it is incredibly strong…”
  • Actually, now I think about it, there’s one distinct similarity between Wikia and eBay. It’s their mantra: most people are good. There just a few bad apples. So it might pay-off to listen to Penchina and change your strategy drastically.

Keynote: Khris Loux “Bloggers and startups, challenge the big companies and embrace open standards”:

  • If Web 1.0 was about publishers teaching the truth and Web 2.0 revolved around bloggers balancing out the web then Web 3.0 is about publishers joining the conversation and consumers becoming part of the business…
  • We need to skip SEO and advertising and instead take the true value of the product and spread it out…
  • Trust, user ratings, transparency and user interaction are important factors in the direction the web is currently taking…
    In order to prevent stifled innovation we need open standards…

Nova Spivack: “The Semantic Web as an open and less evil web”

  • After the Web2.0 hype we are currently entering the web 3.0 decade where the connections between people and information are evolving. This is not simply about coining a new number but it is a fundamental upgrade to the infrastructure of the web with a focus on the backend. In the fourth phase of the web we have smarter interfaces that provide smarter user experience based on a richer dataset…
  • The semantic web is not so much about “semantics” as it is set of open standards defined at W3C.
  • Spivack’s guess is that the semantic web will become mainstream around 2010 and with implementations by major companies such as Google and Microsoft…

Rode draad van de dag: Open standaarden blijven héél belangrijk als we meer uit het web willen halen.