Web 2.0 is so over. Welcome to Web 3.0
After reading this article, it was time to read up some more on Web 3.0 by turning to Wikipedia which has a definition by:
Nova Spivack defines Web 3.0 as the third decade of the Web (2010–2020) during which he suggests several major complementary technology trends will reach new levels of maturity simultaneously including:
- transformation of the Web from a network of separately siloed applications and content repositories to a more seamless and interoperable whole. JDW - this has already begun when you look at the suite of apps from Google.
- ubiquitous connectivity, broadband adoption, mobile Internet access and mobile devices; JDW - this is getting better but there are still a lot of rural and some urban areas where broadband is not available or not affordable.
- network computing, software-as-a-service business models, Web servicesdistributed computing, grid computing and cloud computing; interoperability, JDW - most of these services are available today but not widely adopted by large enterprises. These services are ideal solutions for small to medium sized business.
- open technologies, open APIs and protocols, open data formats, open-source software platforms and open data JDW -
- open identity, OpenID, open reputation, roaming portable identity and personal data; JDW - most of these are available today through technologies provided by Google.
- the intelligent web, Semantic Web technologies such as RDF, OWL, SWRL, SPARQL, GRDDL, semantic application platforms, and statement-based datastores; JDW - all these technologies appear to have a long way to go before they are reality. Several semantic web projects have struggled in taking off but they do offer a promising future for the web.
- distributed databases, the "World Wide Database" (enabled by Semantic Web technologies); and
- intelligent applications, natural language processing, machine learning, machine reasoning, autonomous agents