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Web 1.0 = Read Only, static data with simple markup

Web 2.0 = Read/Write, dynamic data through web services

Web 3.0 = Read/Write/Relate, data with structured metadata + managed identity

Some people say that web 2.0 is the network as a OS. By the time of web 3.0 we should have the web behaving more like a single application with many features then an OS with many apps.

Addi at October 25, 2006 07:05 PM

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* Web 1.0 allowed us to share software and files resulting in a fundamental reduction in the duplication of effort during problem solving.

* Web 2.0 services now allow us to share more sophisticated functionality but at a smaller granularity promoting greater reuse of solutions and therefore another drastic reduction in the duplication of effort.

* Web 3.0 will allow us to shunt in human intelligence in a dynamic cooperative manner, with the help of a tightly connected network of personal A.I. assistants, resulting in an explosive improvement in our ability to share solutions and talent.

Robert Oschler at December 12, 2006 01:01 AM

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Web 3.0 is coming. The Web is the User Interface to the Internet. The Internet is not the Web.

They both continue to evolve through the application of creative intelligence by people all over this planet to the interconnection of computing devices and machines (the Internet) and the content that is consumed by a living end-user (via the Web’s Browser).

Andy Carvin’s comment was the closest when he referenced Tim Berners-Lee’s notion of the read-write web. HTML was originally derived from the document mark up language used for technical documentation. This was to enable the display of Content for an end-user to consume (read and view). The point is the Web is about communications, not the technology infrastructure, not the wired or wireless device used to access the infrastructure to enable communications, and not the business opportunities that sprout from the capabilities of modern information technology. Execution will be another Internet component, just as VOIP is and IPv6. The interface to the content that is posted, presented, created, and generated is made humanly available via the Web.

So, if we follow Tim Berners-Lee’s notion of the Web as communications, I would propose that the Web 3.0 can be defined via the following logic:

[1] Web 1.0 was about making information, regardless of media, available for push to and pull by individual users.

[2] Web 2.0 is Web 1.0 with the addition of the capability for individual users to push information and media to the Web site.

Therefore,

[3] Web 3.0 will be Web 2.0 with the addition of individuals being able to share as a group and in real time information and media.

Just as game development has evolved to enable massively multiplayer online games (MMOG), the sharing of an environment will allow similar real time communication that the MMOG players enjoy.

Semantic Web is a combination of extrapolated database technology and algorithm based automaton agents. The output of applications built on the Semantic Web will be served through the Internet to the Web Browser, whether that Browser resides on or is built into a mobile phone, a refrigerator, a television set, or a computer.

The Web is all about communications.

Thanks for listening.
Harrison Rose
Silicon Valley
Harrison Rose at January 14, 2007 09:24 PM