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Here are the way neato links I checked out this week.

Design

Ten Things I Have Learned by Milton Glaser

Ten logo design tips from the field

How to (and not to) work with a designer

Your Logo Makes Me Barf

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I have taken a great deal of interest in Web 3.0, or rather, the next generation of search and Web interaction. Last month, I wrote about How Web 3.0 Will Work.

This week comes news about a new search system called Wolfram Alpha by British inventor, Dr Stephen Wolfram. Details can be found in the article below.

An invention that could change the internet for ever

It’s a search application that answers questions, rather than resulting in a list of pages. Check this out:
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For years, I have worked with blogging software like WordPress and shopping cart software like X-Cart. For much of that time I have been intimidated by the prospect of developing an online community. They seem to be an order of magnitude more complex than anything I’ve worked with before. That has changed.

I spent the earlier part of this past week at the NAB Show in Las Vegas. I learned many things there, and got some great visual introductions to 3D motion graphics. But the most paradigm-shifting (please forgive me the cliche) experience I had was a 3-hour seminar on Wednesday.
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I’ll be heading to the NAB Show in Las Vegas on Sunday, staying through Wednesday. One of the seminars I plan to attend is called, “Emerging Web 3.0 Technologies You Need To Know”.

When I saw that seminar title, I thought sheesh I’m still trying to figure out what Web 2.0 encompasses. It turns out that a lot of people are still doing that. Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the World Wide Web, once said “I think Web 2.0 is of course a piece of jargon, nobody even knows what it means.”

This is a great article that attempts to define the differences between Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0. It even offers what Web 4.0 and beyond may look like:

“How Web 3.0 Will Work” on howstuffworks.com

Here’s a quick summary I compiled of the suggested distinctions:

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