Web 3.Oh- God- Will- This- Silly- Versioning- Never- Stop?!!
People keep asking what Web 3.0 is. I think maybe when you’ve got an overlay of scalable vector graphics–everything rippling and folding and looking misty–on Web 2.0 and access to a semantic Web integrated across a huge space of data, you’ll have access to an unbelievable data resource.”
Web 2.0 is well documented and talked about. The power of the Net reached a critical mass, with capabilities that can be done on a network level. We are also seeing richer devices over the last four years and richer ways of interacting with the network, not only in hardware like game consoles and mobile devices, but also in the software layer. You don’t have to be a computer scientist to create a program. We are seeing that manifest in Web 2.0 and 3.0 will be a great extension of that, a true communal medium … the distinction between professional, semiprofessional and consumers will get blurred, creating a network effect of business and applications.”
“Web 1.0 was dial-up, 50K average bandwidth, Web 2.0 is an average one megabit of bandwidth and Web 3.0 will be 10 megabits of bandwidth all the time, which will be the full video Web, and that will feel like Web 3.0.”
Had to happen sooner or later, right? The lexicographers who gave us the term Web 2.0 have finally gotten around to issuing an “official” definition of Web 3.0 and, having undoubtedly scurried to trademark the term, are probably already plotting the pricey industry conference that will accompany it.
So what is Web 3.0, “officially”?
Web 3.0 is defined as the creation of high-quality content and services produced by gifted individuals using Web 2.0 technology as an enabling platform.”
–Jason Calacanis
In other words it’s Web 2.0 2.0, Web 2.0 with another 1.0’s worth of marketing BS. Or, as Josh Kopelman, managing director of First Round Capital, aptly puts it, “any Internet-based company that has launched after 2004.“
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It isn’t web 3.0. It’s Web2008.
Posted by Jay Parkhill at October 4th, 2007 at 6:39 pmIf you type “Wash DC” into Google Earth, it takes you to Washington DC and marks all the laundries.
There’s 60 years of Artificial Intelligence at work for you.
Posted by Ron Hardin at October 6th, 2007 at 3:12 amI thought web3.0 would be the realm of web2.0 applications that are rich offline; such as those built with google gears, Adobe AIR, etc.
Posted by Chris Kirkpatrick at October 9th, 2007 at 6:12 am