RSSMicrosoft to Invest in 'Web 3.0'
By the Betanews Staff | Published July 17, 2007, 10:23 AM
Seeing as it was late to the game with Web 2.0, Microsoft is making a preemptive effort to be ready the next time around. The company has pledged $500,000 in research grants toward what it calls "Intelligent Web 3.0," in which the Web becomes more aware of where and how it's being accessed in order to custom tailor information.
In total, Microsoft pledged nearly $6.5 million in research grants to colleges and universities. $1 million will cover utilizing cell phones in the healthcare industry, $700,000 for genome studies, $500,000 each for multi-core and sustainable computing, and another $500,000 for human-robot interaction. In addition, $1 million will be put toward academic computational research, and another $1 million provided to five new faculty members to be put toward their research.
where's web 2.0?
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|web 2.0 == open standards
Microsoft has it's own standards.
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|"in which the Web becomes more aware of where and how it's being accessed in order to custom tailor information."
Why does that not sound good to me?
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|I know for a fact that I'd absolutely hate to hop on the web and have it show me the stuff I actually want to know.
I *love* having to aggregate RSS feeds and hunt down all of it.
/sarcasm
The only way this would bother me is if they tried to limit me from looking elsewhere if I chose to do so.
Aside from that one line, it sounds more like distributed computing, though. Which could always use a boost.
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|"What do you want to see on the Internet today?" That is a very hard question and too many people spend too much time pondering it. So in the future you can just sit back, eat potato chips, and let Microsoft push the content they know you want to see.
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