Kate Ray (@kateray) a student at NYU studying journalism/psycholoy has come up with this great video on Web 3.0 assembling the thoughts of great thinkers like Tim Berners-Lee, Clay Shirky, Chris Dixon, David Weinberger, Nova Spivack, Jason Shellen, Lee Feigenbaum, John Hebeler, Alon Halevy, David Karger and Abraham Bernstein

Web 3.0 from Kate Ray on Vimeo.

Smashing magazine talks about the future trend : Holistic Web Browsing

The gap between technological innovation and its integration in our daily lives is shrinking at a rate much faster than we can keep pace with—consider the number of unique Web applications you signed up for in the past year alone. This has resulted in a very fragmented experience of the Web. While running several different browsers, with all sorts of plug-ins, you might also be running multiple standalone applications to manage feeds, social media accounts and music playlists.

Even though we may be adept at switching from one tab or window to another, we should be working towards a more holistic Web experience, one that seamlessly integrates all of the functionality we need in the simplest and most contextual way. With this in mind, let’s review four trends that designers and developers would be wise to observe and integrate into their work so as to pave the way for a more holistic Web browsing experience:

1. The browser as operating system,
2. Functionally-limited mobile applications,
3. Web-enhanced devices,
4. Personalization.

The event – International Seminar On Network Theory: Network Multidimensionality In The Digital Age was held on 19th and 20th of Feb 2010 and sponsored by The Annenberg Networks Network, USC. The full video coverage of the event is available on the site along with keynote speech and session presentation:

* Networks, Societies, Spheres: Reflections of an Actor-network theorist
* Moving Technology Inside the Network
* Challenges Posed by Network Multidimensionality in the Digital Age
* The Dark Side of Metcalfe’s Law: Multiple and Growing Costs of Network Exclusion
* Fuzziness of Inclusion-Exclusion: Network Gatekeeping Theory
* The Ever Evolving Web, The Power of Networks
* Linked Data Networks: The Pragmatic Semantic Web
* Varieties of Networks, Varieties of Power: Network Multidimensionality in Historical Context

Video of the conference panels & keynote: