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What's is Web 3.0?

Here is the explanation of Web 3.0 concept.
The slides summ up the main differences between Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0.

 Web 1.0 - That Geocities & Hotmail era was all about read-only content
and static HTML websites. People preferred navigating the web through
link directories of Yahoo! and dmoz.

 Web 2.0 - This is about user-generated content and the read-write web.
People are consuming as well as contributing information through blogs
or sites like Flickr, YouTube, Digg, etc. The line dividing a consumer
and content publisher is increasingly getting blurred in the Web 2.0
era.

 Web 3.0 - This will be about semantic web (or the meaning of data),
personalization (e.g. iGoogle), intelligent search and behavioral
advertising among other things.

Web Site of Speakeasy - New Bars Going for the Speakeasy Look

Now, new bars are going for "Speakeasy" look.

ON a nondescript block in Williamsburg, not far from the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, a new bar and restaurant called Rye opened last week.

There’s no sign out front. The facade, an artfully casual assemblage of old wooden slats, gives the place a boarded-up, abandoned look. It does have a street number, painted discreetly on a glass panel above the front doors, but that’s it. Like a suspect in a lineup, it seems to shrink back when observed.

There are a lot of bars like this right now. They can be found all over the United States, skulking in the shadows. Obtrusively furtive, they represent one of the strangest exercises in nostalgia ever to grip the public, an infatuation with the good old days of Prohibition.

Their Web site go like this:

Bourbon & Branch, San Francisco

 

Bar? What Bar?

 

 

 

Microsoft, Sony Unveil Technologies Similar to Nintendo's Wii

Finally, they decided to follow Wii...

Sony showed off new technology in which a camera device parked by a PlayStation 3 owner's TV can track a user's hand movements as he or she controls, onscreen, a virtual sword or baseball bat. The technology is scheduled to become available next spring.

"We're working to create an experience that is much closer to real life than anything you've experienced," said Jack Tretton, president and chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment of America. "This is going to be an important part of PlayStation's future."

Microsoft showed off its technology, called Project Natal, on Monday. So advanced is Microsoft's take on this technology that users don't even need to hold a controller in their hands, thanks to a camera that "sees" how players are tilting their hands as they, for example, steer a virtual car in a racing game.

Microsoft, Sony Unveil Technologies Similar to Nintendo's Wii

The World's Best Places to Live 2009

In Mercer Consultings annual Quality of Living Survey, Europe once again dominates the list of 215 countries around the world.  The top city in Asia is Singapore, at no. 26. No cities from Africa or South America are in the top 30.
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No. 1: Vienna, Austria
No. 2: Zurich, Switzerland
No. 3: Geneva, Switzerland
No. 4 (tie): Vancouver, Canada
No. 4 (tie): Auckland, New Zealand
No. 6: Dusseldorf, Germany
No. 7: Munich, Germany
No. 8: Frankfurt, Germany
No. 9: Bern, Switzerland
No. 10: Sydney, Australia
No. 11: Copenhagen, Denmark
No. 12: Wellington, New Zealand
No. 13: Amsterdam, Netherlands
No. 14: Brussels, Belgium
No. 15: Toronto, Canada
No. 16 (tie): Ottawa, Canada
No. 16 (tie): Berlin, Germany
No. 18: Melbourne, Australia
No. 19 : Luxembourg
No. 20: Stockholm, Sweden
No. 21: Perth, Australia
No. 22: Montreal, Canada
No. 23: Nuremberg, Germany
No. 24: Oslo, Norway
No. 25: Dublin, Ireland
No. 26 (tie): Singapore
No. 26 (tie): Calgary, Canada
No. 28: Hamburg, Germany
No. 29: Honolulu, U.S.
No. 30: San Francisco, U.S.