This is the last half of Spotlight’s panel discussion. Michael Singer hosts David Barnes of IBM, Michael Zermuellen of Stephens Institute, and Stephen Socolof of New Venture Partners. 

Check yesterday’s post for the first half.

Information sharing is the essence of Web 3.0 but its not a new thing. The automotive industry has been sharing enterprise data with strategic partners to reduce inventories and maximize profits. No worries. Technology didn’t hurt the auto companies. Being out of touch with customer needs did. Their problem was too much inbreeding of data. They ought to have incorporated customer data into their schema. If you can only see your own product data and all you make are big gas guzzlers it seems like there are no hybrids on the road. Hello Alice!

The future looks to be more inclusive in data sharing but that is just its potential. Owners will still be able to lock data out but some brave souls will take the jump and benefit by it. The future belongs to them.

So now we know all about Web 2.0 and #.0. Or do we? The real question is “how are we going to leverage the new technologies to make life and learning better?” Let’s chat!

What is Web 2.0 and why do I care?

This vodcast is a panel discussion about how the World Wide Web is rapidly evolving into a highly interactive learning tool. Michael Singer hosts David Barnes of IBM, Michael Zermuellen of Stephens Institute, and Stephen Socolof of New Venture Partners. Listen to what these industry insiders have to say.

This vodcast is made available by Spotlight.

The exciting news is that these web applications free users from the limitations of their operating system! How’s is this? Web applications are through the web browser which handles any translation needed to get the operating system to do whatever. So the same web application can be run on computers running DOS/Windows, Linux, OS/X, AIX, and any other operating system.