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Re: The Pervasive Web

Peter Bekel — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:59:54 -0000

Like your post, but as I see it the pervasive web and the semantic web are two different things, who will co-exist in the near future, and will both form the next generation of the web.
The semantic web is the intelligent web where computers can understand web content (bottom-up by tagging sites with meta data or top-down through interpretation of natural language). The pervasive web means that we connect to the web through all kinds of devices, not just a computer screen, as you already described. Definitely a desirable thing, I agree!

Re: The Pervasive Web

John Mullinax — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:05:00 -0000

Shoot. Not a server issue -- the "." at the end of the sentence got picked up as part of the link (which it's not). Here's a link without the offending punctuation:

http://blogs.msdn.com/johnm...

Re: The Pervasive Web

Aaron Brazell — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 02:33:58 -0000

Broken link, John. Damn Microsoft webservers. ;-)

Re: The Pervasive Web

John Mullinax — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:38:47 -0000

Pervasive web. Like the name ok -- better than web 3.0! I think your description is close: "The concept behind pervasive web is that you the user can access your information wherever you might be and interact with the global community wherever you might be, in whatever method is available. You know - the right content, at the right time, in the right place on the right device."

Reach farther. Not me accessing my info wherever I might be. (I do that already on my smart phone!) How about all of us accessing what others know -- like a virtual hive mind. See here for more on this: http://blogs.msdn.com/johnm....

Re: The Pervasive Web

David Phillips — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:06:58 -0000

A good debate and I like Greg's comment. I think, however, that he will be surprised soon enough. Not so long ago, it was unthinkable that everyone would have (at least one) phone with them all the time. The iPod came from nowhere and is part of the kit and caboodle for millions.

The combination of platforms and channels as they evolve is going to make pervasive interactive communication very doable and I think that there are very fundamental human drivers that will pull people in much to their surprise.

Re: The Pervasive Web

john — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:39:50 -0000

very interesting. i'm a fan of twitter as well. i think we are really entering an era of openness as people like to say. all these large internet companies opening up their platforms for developers to build apps and members to get information from in an easy way. i wrote about it recently. http://cutcaster.blogspot.c...

Re: The Pervasive Web

Greg Gershman — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:44:08 -0000

Many years ago, IBM had an initiative called the Pervasive Web. A lot of it got rolled into WebSphere and marketed as the next generation of application development. I'm sure it's used a lot in business/enterprise applications, but I doubt consumers are touching it in anyway.

I often take a step back at family meals, look at the people around the table, and ask myself: "Would this person have any use at all for [Twitter/Facebook/etc.]. More often than not, the answer is no; which doesn't mean these apps aren't going to be successful, because there's a whole other segment of the market that will use them. It does mean that there's a whole large segment whose needs aren't being met with the current solutions, and that there are lots of opportunities out there.

Re: The Pervasive Web

Alexander van Elsas — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:19:09 -0000

Hi Aaron, good post. The pervasive web is a pretty good term describing the things you want. I did a similar post earlier and tried to think of a term that avoids web 3.0. I am a strong believer that focus for innovation should be on interaction. Current social networks are not really about interaction, they are about monetizing the value in the network (which was of course created by its users, not by the service owner). Twitter is doing a good job on interaction, but I like Twitter most when I am actuelly interacting with others. As a counterexample for this, if I follw a person on Twitter, but he's not following me, that makes me a groupie instead of a friend. I don't like that aspect of Twitter. I ended up introducing the term Open Social Interaction Network in my post, but I like your proposal for a pervasive web:
http://vanelsas.wordpress.c...