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.
