Social, Interconnected Applications Give Way To Semantic Web

Ben Hunt casts an eye to the future of a more connected Web and how we will experience it through new social applications.

This vision features insights into new search engines, an online marketplace, and solutions for phishing and spam. Ben also predicts that Yahoo! will be the dominant online brand for the next five years.

Here is what he sees:

The next killer app

The next killer app isn’t an app.

It will be a new networking platform that builds on today’s world-wide web and which makes possible new generations of more powerful and useful applications.

My vision is of a next-generation Web that is just as simple and flexible as Web 1.0, but more interconnected and powerful.

At its core, it will incorporate a universe of connections that reflects the real-life links between people, organisations, services, products, Web sites, and other entities.

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How New Social, Interconnected Applications Give Way To The Untapped Potential Of The Semantic Web

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