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From E-Commerce to Web 3.0: Let the Bots Do the Shopping

In a Web 3.0 world, then, a personalized travel agent will help you find and book a highly customized itinerary, leveraging all the power of previous generations of Web technology –searching (both generic and vertical), community building, content and commerce. That’s how I get Web 3.0 = (4C+P+VS) — the sum of content, commerce, community and context, with personalization and vertical search.

This is complex technology, requiring sophisticated artificial-intelligence algorithms. After all, your Web 3.0 travel agent will not be a “person” but a “bot”, or intelligent agent. But I suspect you will like your travel bot. And your career bot. And your shopping bot. (Sramana Mitra, Wired)

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