The Greater Dayton IT Alliance is announcing web 3.0. Which is great and dandy- considering so many businesses in Dayton still aren’t web 2.0 or even web 1.0.

Dr. Sheth got a great write up on semantic web research in Sunday’s Dayton Daily News. Regular readers of Websitetology- may recall us pointing to an interesting search engine called Kartoo – http://blogosopher.com/?p=62 a social network mapping tool- which does some of the same things that Dr. Sheth’s semantic search research is focused on.

While I’m sure Dr. Sheth is a bright guy- the reality is- most people who are the leaders in the search field are already working for Google. They have the money, they have the technology- and – most importantly- they have the users already contributing the intelligence of the masses to refine the data.

But- here is what the GDITA says about the luncheon:

Come see Web 3.0, the future of the web. Dr. Amit Sheth, the the LexisNexis Eminent Scholar for Advanced Data Management and Analysis at Wright State University, DaytaOhio, will be presenting his research on advanced web technology. The presentation will look at future technology and include how local companies (big and small) can partner with the excellent research being done at Wright State University.

This event is for people interested in how they can incorporate advanced web technologies into their business offerings.

Dr. Sheth has held research and development, management and faculty positions at Honeywell, Unisys, Bellcore and the University of Georgia, where he founded the Large Scale Distributed Information Systems Laboratory (LSDIS). Dr. Sheth has founded two start ups and published more than 200 papers and articles and authored/edited four books. He has organized eight international meetings and holds two patents. He earned his Ph.D. in computer and information science at The Ohio State University.

One note: The GDITA site breaks Firefox on the Mac. Good web developers test their site in all relevant environments- Window, Mac, Linux – with IE, Firefox, Safari etc.

 Well, if you are the king of the Internet, and have a market cap higher that the GNP of all the developed countries in the world plus Bill Gates and Warren Buffet (well- almost) you have, well, at least 45.

Official Google Blog: The wisdom of orkut

1. More Google Blogs
2. AdWords API Blog
3. Blogger Buzz
4. Blogs of Note
5. Dentro de AdSense
6. Dentro de AdWords
7. El Blog de Google México
8. Google AJAX Search API Blog
9. Google Analytics Blog
10. Google Checkout API Blog
11. Google Code – Featured Projects
12. Google Code – Updates
13. Google CPG
14. Google Librarian Central
15. Google Polska – oficjalny blog
16. Google Talkabout
17. Google Testing Blog
18. Google Web Toolkit Blog
19. Google Webmaster Central Blog
20. Google 黑板报 — Google 中国的博客网志
21. Google 한국 블로그
22. Il blog ufficiale di AdSense in Italiano
23. Inside AdSense
24. Inside AdSense – Das offizielle deutsche AdSense-Blog
25. Inside AdSense: Het Officiële Nederlandse Google AdSense Blog
26. Inside AdWords
27. Inside Google Book Search
28. Inside Google Desktop
29. O blog do Google Brasil
30. Official Google Base Blog
31. Official Google Blog
32. Official Google Checkout Blog
33. Official Google Data APIs Blog
34. Official Google Docs & Spreadsheets Blog
35. Official Google Enterprise Blog
36. Official Google Italia Blog
37. Official Google Japan Blog
38. Official Google Mac Blog
39. Official Google Maps API Blog
40. Official Google Reader Blog
41. Official Google Research Blog
42. Official Google Video Blog
43. Por dentro do AdSense
44. Webmaster-Zentrale Blog
45. Официальный блог – Google Россия

Still not convinced blogs are great business tools? If I hear one more “I want a website- not a blog” from someone who can’t tell a browser from a broaster- it’s time to leave Dayton OH for somewhere where people want to learn how to win at business.

The word Blog needs to go away. It’s a very smart, backend for a sophisticated content management system that can get to the top of Google without having to pay for your position. Blogs can also allow anyone to manage content for a site.

If Google is doing it- why aren’t you? Take the Websitetology seminar and become a brilliant asset to your company.

A client asked what happened to the undo button in WordPress 2.1- I thought it disapeared with the autosave- but with a little help from Google- I found an “Easter egg” function in WordPress.

WordPress 2.1 – More Editor Options » Solo Technology
Recently upgraded to WordPress 2.1 and pondering the WYSIWYG editor? Did you know there are more options there than what you first see? Me neither! But, thanks to “codeispoetry” in this support thread, I do now.

Go from this:

Basic toolbars

to this:

Advanced toolbar

PC users just hit alt-shift-v (Firefox) or alt-v (IE) to toggle it. Mac users– use cntrl-v (Firefox)

(Not seeing either of those? Visit Users → Your Profile and make sure that “Use the visual editor when writing” is checked. Still having problems? Visit the WordPress support forums.)

Pasting from word processors just became a whole lot easier. Two of the new buttons are “Paste as Plain Text” and “Paste from Word.” Nice for those who use such things. I like the custom character thing too. Now I can easily add ∞ whenever I need it…