Web 3.0: Chicken Farms on the Semantic Web

The explosive growth of blogs, wikis, social networking sites, and other online communities has transformed the Web in recent years. The mainstream media has taken notice of the so-called Web 2.0 revolution-stories abound about events such as Facebook's huge valuation and trends like the growing Hulu-YouTube rivalry and Flickr's role in the current digital camera sales boom. However, a new set of technologies is emerging in the background, and even the Web 2.0 crowd is starting to take notice.