What is Web 3.0?

Question

My boss asked me this yesterday just to gauge my response. Apparently, some of our clients are asking for "Web 3.0"

I told him I really didn't know.

He said when he's asked around the consensus is that it's microformats, etc. Frankly no one really knew either. (probably get a varied response now to "what is web 2.0?" still)

I watched a demo video of Mozilla's Ubiquity this morning and thought to myself "wow this could possibly be what Web 3.0 is all about"

What does Web 3.0 mean to you? How should we as developers prepare for the Web 3.0 world?

Answer 1

It means the Marketing Department are in charge again.

Answer 2

To me, Web 3.0 is getting closer to the Semantic Web dream.

Answer 3

Crickey, I'm still getting my head around Web 2.0

Answer 4

Personally, I think that Web 3.0 is when we get to the point that most of the applications we use are delivered via the Web and the underlying OS has not bearing at all. All you would need is something that has web access a proper browser and is completely standards compliant (Sorry IE). And actually, it may not even be a browser in the current sense. We could eventually have OSs (like gOS) that are meant to do everything via the web and there is no real desktop or file system, and instead loads up directly to the web and all your apps.

Answer 5

Meaningless buzztalk. Avoid.

Answer 6

Here's what some guy from Google had to say about Web 3.0:

Google CEO Eric Schmidt was recently at the Seoul Digital Forum and he was asked to define Web 3.0 by an audience member. After first joking that Web 2.0 is "a marketing term", Schmidt launched into a great definition of Web 3.0. He said that while Web 2.0 was based on Ajax, Web 3.0 will be "applications that are pieced together" - with the characteristics that the apps are relatively small, the data is in the cloud, the apps can run on any device (PC or mobile), the apps are very fast and very customizable, and are distributed virally (social networks, email, etc).

Source from Read/Write/Web

Answer 7

Web 3.0 Is the result of irresponsible naming. When someone decided to call desktop-like stateful web applications (Or is it just lots of reflection effects? No one is sure.) "web 2.0", they intentionally or unintentionally gave the impression that it was bigger, better, stronger, and thus everyone must have it. It somehow got into the news that whatever this thing was, it existed and it was nice, so all the business owners in the world wanted to have it, even though they didn't know for sure what it even was. Finally, one of them thought, "We have 2.0, but our customers demand to be fulfilled, and the essence of our product is not useful enough to satisfy them! We must impress them more! Isn't 3.0 coming out yet?" and all his/her lackeys nodded their heads in agreement and yelled out things like "microformats!", "visual feed mashups!", "cloud computing!". Our suffering thus continues.

Answer 8

Web 3.0 is semantic web integration. It's not going to happen. It looks something like: 1. Code all of your business data in microformats and RDF stores legible within first-order predicate logic 2. ... 3. Profit!

Web 2.0 was a very sucessful, carefully orchestrated web of overlapping technologies promoted by Tim O'Reilly: http://www.lastampa.it/multimedia/multimedia.asp?p=1&IDmsezione=29&IDalbum=8558&tipo=VIDEO

Answer 9

I think the best answer would use as many adverbs as possible. The answer I usually give is: "Generations of technology are identified only after the fact, and web 3.0 will just be whatever happens next."

Answer 10

I'm skipping Web 3.0 and moving straight to Web 4.0

Answer 11

I'm waiting for at least Web SP1

Answer 12

I'm waiting for Web 3.11 for workgroups.

Answer 13

As far as I'm aware, Web 2.0 was the widespread adoption of AJAX

Web 3.0 is the marketing department going "Hey, this web 2.0 really got popular, maybe we can get some attention by upping the number and attaching it to whatever rubbish technology we happen to have at hand! Awesome leveraging of synergies!"

Answer 14

I think next web step (3.14, 3.00, 95 or something) is ambiental information computing. Computer understanding what your up to and trying to help you in different ways. Understanding you, the context and the world around you.

Interesting, useful and fun stuff can be done then.

Semantic web is just a technical subset, but it is way to narrow to be the web3.0

Andraz Tori, CTO at Zemanta

Answer 15

I really do not like the term Web 3.0 and it's often view as the semantic web which is he new vision of the web. I will try to describe the semantic web bellow but feel free to visit my blog or contact me if you want more info.

A semantic web is a set of technologies that will enable software to understand the web. Today, our web is like a file server where you have just a bunch of documents that can not be used smartly. Tomorrow, our known web will be more like a database that applications will share using mashups of data and standards like RDF, GRDDL, OWL, SPARQL coming out of the WWW Consortium. These standards enable the meaning of the information on the web but we will not have a smarter web without human inputs (at least not in this decade) visit website like freebase paralax, Twine or hakia in order to have a view on those nascent semantic apps.

Answer 16

web 3.0 is a minor marketing upgrade to web 2.0, which failed to deliver on the promise of utopia

i am waiting for web 4.11, that's where the real info will be!

Answer 17

Web 3.0 is a lot of things. Real-time is definitely one of them. With that said, I believe technologies like XMPP are going to play a major role.

Answer 18

Two more bugs than Web 1.0?

Paul.

Answer 19

Web 3.0 is simply one step closer to Web 4.20 (i.e. the singularity.)

Answer 20

A term to convince venture capitalists that your business proposal isn't going to crash and burn like everything in the original dot com era.

Answer 21

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It's interesting to note that software version numbers tend to end at 3.x, after which the marketing guys usually rename the product, usually by adding a "Plus" or "Pro" to the name. So it's rare to seen a version 4.x of anything.
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Answer 22

why do we need web x.0 ?

Answer 23

It is about web of data as an evolution of web of documents. It is about standard data representation and standard interfaces along with data meaning.

Answer 24

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