Web 3.0: When virtual meets real (extrait du communiqué de presse du 4 décembre 2012) Set-up by Loïc Le Meur the hottest event of this ending 2006 year is in Paris on coming December 11th and 12th. More than 900 attendees from over 30 countries already have registered for the conference and for the parallel start-up presentation among which E-BOX. On Tuesday December the 12th, at 11 a.m., Antoine MERCIER will explain his original vision as a blinking eye to the now much quoted request by John Markoff in the NY Times, which has originated the Semantic Web trend of Web 3.0. His presentation will consider the technological stakes of the complex following request: « Going down the street with a cumbersome parcel I’d like to drop it within the next five minutes for a carrier able to deliver it to my house before 9 p.m. at the best price. » After launching the C2C Box concept E-BOX again innovate thanks to its M2M technologies and Web Services in order to bring new real time useful services in a vision of the future, for the Web services, that resembles a question mark: what if virtual comes to meet with real !

1. www.postweb3.com
Will E-BOX
become the first
Web 3.0 postal
operator ?
Antoine MERCIER
Founder and CEO
Le Web3 Startup room E-BOX presentation (Antoine MERCIER) Tuesday, December 12th

2. www.postweb3.com The example
Walking down the street to my next business appointment, my eye is caught
by a handbag, through a shop window, that is exactly what my wife expects for
her birthday.
I get into the shop, buy the handbag and
get back to the street
with a cumbersome packet
that I will need
to carry during
the whole day.
Le Web3 Startup room E-BOX presentation (Antoine MERCIER) Tuesday, December 12th

3. www.postweb3.com The “semantic” request
Now I have the following request:
« Within five minutes,
let this parcel be taken by a carrier
that will deliver it to my home
tonight
at the best price »
This request is way more complex than the well-known example by John Markoff in the
NY Times which has originated the Semantic Web trend for Web 3.0 (November 12,2006)
“I am looking for a warm place to vacation and I have a budget of $3,000 and I have an 11-
year-old chid”
Le Web3 Startup room E-BOX presentation (Antoine MERCIER) Tuesday, December 12th

4. www.postweb3.com How will this be solved ?
As an e-box community member I instantly get connected
to their web services platform through my cell phone in
order to know the closest Self Service Automated Postal
Facility and its related access plan.
I may enter the point and open one of the secured vault
available using this same cell phone of mine
As soon as the parcel is in a vault I tell E-BOX Open Web
CitEbox Agency Addressee
Service Platform which delivery address, such as my
logistic depot
Software
CitEbox servers
Software already registered personal one, and which services are
needed, such as express, low cost, sustainable, etc.
Commercial branch Database
Software
Web Interface
Internet
Postal services
VPN secured
e-box APR Logistic operators
connection SMS
(Automated operator
Postal Retail)
network
 Closing the vault door settles
the whole transaction
Le Web3 Startup room E-BOX presentation (Antoine MERCIER) Tuesday, December 12th

5. www.postweb3.com Which technologies ?
I have been identified and geolocalized thanks to my cell phone
(Wireless internet communication)
Belonging to the e-box community I am
entitled access to the Automated Postal Facility
closest to where I am (Mash-up)
The item that I have put in an e-box vault has automatically been
identified and real time gets a unique ID associated to the set of
data that describes the delivery and my personal preferences (M2M
technologies)
The E-BOX web services platform will automatically select/notify
the related carrier(s) and transfer instructions for parcel withdrawal,
address and access code, delivery options, payment, to them
(Supply Chain Management, Data Base Management)
The more members in the community the denser and more
efficient the service and its impact in terms of mutual involvement
and contribution to greenhouse effect decrease (Web 2.0 services)
Le Web3 Startup room E-BOX presentation (Antoine MERCIER) Tuesday, December 12th

6. www.postweb3.com Is it Web 3.0 ?
As a summary we can see that the whole e-box
process uses the Web 3.0 technologies such as
presented today:
Digital identity (De Guilhermier)
Mobility (Simoncini )
Intelligent and communicating agents (Fain)
Real time services (Joi Ito )
E-commerce application (Krim)
Collective intelligence (O’Reilly)
Semantic web automated resolution of a
complex request (Berner-Lee)
Le Web3 Startup room E-BOX presentation (Antoine MERCIER) Tuesday, December 12th

7. www.postweb3.com Web 3.0: When virtual meets real
And the beauty in all of this?
It is useful,
with a business model
E-BOX
32, rue de Paradis
F-75010 PARIS
www.e-box.fr
Thanks for your attention
Le Web3 Startup room E-BOX presentation (Antoine MERCIER) Tuesday, December 12th