fnokd! » Web 3.0 http://www.fnokd.com Bob Blogs Mon, 18 May 2009 17:42:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Non-announcement http://www.fnokd.com/2007/10/29/non-announcement/ http://www.fnokd.com/2007/10/29/non-announcement/#comments Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:22:42 +0000 Bob McWhirter http://www.fnokd.com/2007/10/29/non-announcement/ A year from today, I’ll be 35.

That’ll make me eligible to be the President of the United States. I had planned on announcing my web2.0 candidacy, and do a Ze Frank-esque 1-year internship of running for president. I even registered a domain, “designed” a logo, and planned on doing a write-in campaign to demonstrate the power of the hype of New Media.

But in my research, I discovered 4 things:

  1. Stephen Colbert is running for president, so I don’t stand a chance.
  2. Even a write-in candidacy requires a crapload of paperwork and signatures and stuff.
  3. Being a libertarian, it’d be ironic to try to be President and force my views of government on the population.
  4. There’s this thing called Unity08, trying to do an end-run around the 2-party system. The guy from Law & Order (and TD Ameritrade commercials) is their spokesperson. Getting a Unity08 nomination means that someone else handles the election paperwork.

So, today, I do not announce my run for President. But I’ll consider it if someone nominates me for the Unity08 “party”.

I do hope I get an invite to Twine today, though.

And maybe some cake. I like cake.

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At the Web2.0 Summit on October 19th, Radar Networks will announce a revolutionary new service that uses the power of the emerging Semantic Web to enable a smarter way of sharing, organizing and finding information. Founder and CEO Nova Spivack will also give the first public preview of Radar’s application, which is one of the first examples of “Web 3.0” – the next-generation of the Web, in which the Web begins to function more like a database, and software grows more intelligent and helpful.

Update #1:

Read/Write Web has done up their review of Twine, Radar’s product. So did VentureBeat.

Update #2:

More reviews from…

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