It’s one of the breaking news on twitter right now! Jaiku got acquired by Google and confirmed that just a few minutes ago, as Mashable writes. Also Google confirms on their corporate blog.
Mashable writes: “In a world where price is no object for Google, it’s surprising they would opt for Jaiku and not Twitter.”
Congrats to the Finnish guys, who really rock!
It is amazing! The second BarCamp in Germany’s capital Berlin, which will take place the weekend before Web 2.0 Expo Berlin, has opened it’s doors. 66 places reserved in less than an hour. It’s great!
And it’s also good for you my English readers, because it’s the first international BarCamp here in Germany. Official language are English and German. I’ll be there! Let me know, if you go and we’ll met.
I already blogged about the current Web 3.0 discussion ransomed by Mahalo (which seems to be a great project by the way) founder Jason Calacanis.
But I think one of the best definitions is made by Niva Spivak from Radar Networks, who writes:
Web 3.0, in my opinion is best defined as the third-decade of the Web (2010 - 2020), during which time several key technologies will become widely used. Chief among them will be RDF and the technologies of the emerging Semantic Web. While Web 3.0 is not synonymous with the Semantic Web (there will be several other important technology shifts in that period), it will be largely characterized by semantics in general.
Nova created a very interesting graphic, which shows us, that Web 3.0 starts 2010 in his opinion.
What’s in my mind is, how people will notice, when Web 3.0 is all over the internet. I don’t know how to differ between Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 in practise. Of course, we can speculate about what Web 3.0 will be, but who will identify it, if Web 3.0 is here?
I have a friend, Lutz Thielmann, who visited one of the Lunch 2.0’s I organized, and he worked a long time in Semantic Web sector. I asked him for a book suggestion for beginners. Would be cool to read a good book about that. But, hum, I am totally overload with books. Here are some books to review, some classical books which I want to read (for example Kafka, a great author) and I’m currently reading Robert Scoble’s “Naked Conversations” and have a lot of critism most for the German translators.
In an interview with David Wilkinson, who is running the Techzi Network, I got asked about what I think what Web 3.0 will be. It was in January. I answered, that Jajah and Jaxtr will be big players in Web 3.0 and Open Source will be a big part of Web 3.0, but as I think today, I failed.
Today, 10 month after the mentioned interview, I think Web 3.0 is all about portable Social Networks, Semantic Web, WebOS and maybe Micro Blogging (I’m not really sure about that). But I think, Web 3.0 will flood the Web earlier than we can imagine.
“Free Burma” is an initiative to help Burma. It became popular in Germany, because the German blog god, may I call him so?, blogged about it: Robert Basic himself. He’s also one of the contact persons as well as Dario Salvelli. There’s also a wiki explaining what they want to do. Publish only one post on October 4th. Title: “Free Burma”. Of course you are able to add pictures.
I think it’s a great idea. I join the group!
Yes, I created two communities for my readers. The first is a MyBlogLog community, which is easy to join. You need an account, of course and the link. And the special thing is, I also created a Facebook group, which is also easy to join. Both is cool to communicate with my readers! Please follow me there!
I blog in German, you know. And tried to blog English. Not very successful, but I tried. And I capitulated, because I thought my English is too bad. Now I want to reinvigorate my English blog, because a dear friend, Yannick Eckl, showed me, that blogging in English can also be helpful.
I will change the theme of the English blog the next days and I will blog a few posts the next days. But I want to tell you, that you please have to be kind :-). I will also translate the “about” page and every interesting page.
If you want to reach me, I am on Facebook, LinkedIn and of course XING.
I’ve some time now to blog a small posting in English. I’m sorry, but I always forget you.. I’m very busy, you can’t imagine! But I’ll post something in English today, I promise, even if it’s only a translation of a German posting ;-).
Loic Le Meur got some unbelievable pictures by e-mail. Must see!
Umpf, I’m very very rarely in my English blog, sorry. So I hadn’t the time to change this style like I changed the one of my German blog. I’ll do this, when I finished customizing the theme.
But I’ll be here more often the next days / weeks.
