Web 2.0 & Social Media

There’s been alot of buzz about semantic web technology, some people calling it “Web 3.0″. The idea is that will semantic tags your web page becomes a transportable data source; any data element can be used by other applications, easy to find and make use of. Yahoo! announced their next generation search engine codename SearchMonkey ,will employ RDF semantic web tagging and will support some microformats. RDF makes web browsers smarter by giving people more options when viewing a web page, such as adding you to their address book, adding an event to their calendar, getting directions to a place described by RDF, or searching online bookstores for a book marked up using RDF.

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Last month Yahoo! relaunched Digg clone Yahoo! Buzz with much fanfare. Just like Digg Yahoo! Buzz lets people submit articles either by a link on the article page or directly on the site; and then the user community promotes and demotes articles (social ranking). What’s different is that Yahoo! not only factors votes but also the Yahoo! search engine logs to determine popularity. The big incentive is that top stories also get listed on the Yahoo! home page. Clearly there’s some advantage to being on the front page of Yahoo! vs. Digg. Will Yahoo! Buzz be successfull or end up like like AOL’s Digg clone Propeller?