[Note]This is an adapted version of a comment that I wrote responding to the mentioned blog article. I copy it here in case my comment doesn’t get approved, I have also embedded semantics into this copy and changed a few bits[/Note]
Ian Davis posted “Web 3G: The Third Generation of the Web” at 2:19am this morning. Clearly he wasn’t thinking properly.
“Web 3G” isn’t an evolution of “Web 2.0“, surely there is some kind of bang into “Web 3G” existence when an app fulfills all of the requirements that make it a “Web 3G” app? (meaning that its not an evolution at all)
The paragraph that goes (I will call this paragraph X):
“A whole new generation……world-wide network of links with meaning”
This is partly really obvious, and partly something that I have been reiterating over and over in my blog posts and talks (shame on Ian for not referencing me 
). See here for one such example “My View of DataPortability“.
Paragraph X is actually the most important paragraph in the whole of the post, because this is actually the original Semantic Web Vision, plain and simple! And Tim Berners-Lee reiterated that in his GGG blog post. We just call it “Linked Data” or “Linking Open Data”, because with RDF - people haven’t crossed knowledge domains with good Semantic URI linking and the “Linking Open Data” project promotes that.
Ian also forgot to mention that OpenLink Data Spaces (ODS) is also similar to Twine and Talis Engage. I can only speak for ODS but I imagine that Twine and Engage are similar. They are Semantic Web enhanced Social Networking Tools where the user has their own space where they own their data, and all the data in these systems is available through true data portability using Linked Data.
Twine, Engage and ODS enhance the Giant Global Graph or Web of Linked Data or Data Web… they aren’t the be-all and end-all. Its important to remember that.
Oh, also this statement:
“It is not Artificial Intelligence”
Erm… Knowledge Bases are generally considered a subdivision of Artificial Intelligence.
and this:
“but some of the tools and techniques of AI are needed: neural networks, classifiers, heuristics, Bayesian networks and statistical analysis”
These things have existed on the web for years either as part of se