We don’t know what Web 2.0 is yet people are already touting things as Web 3.0. The beauty of Web 3.0 is that PR people will be able to use the buzzword however long Web 2.0 lasts but not a day afterwards; Web 3.0 is something new start-ups claim they are working towards yet no one is sure what that something is.
Whilst the definition of Web 2.0 is fluid, the definition of Web 3.0 is even more so! For a service to call themselves Web 2.0, they generally need to follow that movement of design or require user-generated content. What Web 3.0 is remains much more mysterious and elusive permanently remaining that way.
The term Web 2.0 is misleading to the general public: when they hear it, they think a new Web is out… not a new dot-com boom!
Lets not talk about Web 3.0 until we iron the bugs out of Web 2.0 and perfect it. Maybe one day, the Internet and desktops will be perfectly integrated and there’ll be no difference between the online and the offline… but that day remains decades away.
What is your point? Web 2.0 seems to be pretty well defined. Check out O’reilly’s definition - http://tinyurl.com/y3uhod
And as for Web 3.0, how can you critique this topic and make no mention of the semantic web, RDF, XML, OWL, and so on?
“Lets not talk about Web 3.0 until we iron the bugs out of Web 2.0 and perfect it.”
Oh, I don’t know, why don’t we just say something like ‘let’s not talk about alternatives to fossil fuels until we perfect their uses?’
Sarcasm aside, your premise needs some checking.
Otherwise, thank you for posting something interesting. Even though I disagree with you, you have a right to your opinion.
Cheers -
Surely aren’t semantic web, RDF and XML linked in with 2.0?
When I think of 3.0… I think of Minority Report like interfaces!
Makes me think of this video of Eric Schmidt answering that question. It’s funny, but it also sums up what the web could evolve into, 3.0 or not.
I do hope we don’t have to wait decades though. That seems rather long. Assume 2.0 developed between the dot com bubble and today… That’s roughly about six years. If you look at tech developments in the past five years alone, and the rise of mobile and OS/browser independent apps, I think we’ll be there sooner than we think.
But yes, total online/offline integration we will have to wait a bit longer for. It is my dream though
Still, I agree: even using the term loosely these days sounds pretentious. I would prefer things such as “future web” or “next web” by far.
Thinking of Web 3.0, I imagine a (nearly) complete fusion of human-beings and their devices. As you’re pointing out: no difference between the online and the offline.
Turning it into a horror movie: You could get virtually connected to everybody. Just scan the face with your mobile phone and you can send a message to this person; together with things like that: http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;361485560;fp;16;fpid;1
Great article
internet business people love Buzzwords. stumbled!