Web 3.0 Nearly Here?

March 23rd, 2007

Everyone sees the term “Web 2.0″ everywhere now. It was something that is said to be the generation of social networking to help us gather and share information more easily. Now as I was reading Entrepeneur.com today I see that Web 3.0 may already be among us.

The concept behind Web 3.0 is that we will be able to have computers understand data more efficiently, and in turn do more of our work for us. Web 3.0 is going to take Web 2.0 tagging and expand it so that documents and other web data that now must be interpreted by humans can be read and understood by computers.

“It’s about the machine doing more work on your behalf,” says Oren Etzioni, a computer science professor at the University of Washington in Seattle.

This whole article is pretty amazing actually. Keep an eye on this for sure. This is some fascinating information and is going to make changes to how we use the web, but also it may even have a dramatic impact as to how we create our sites for optimization.

If, say, all addresses on web pages were tagged using a consistent system, an entrepreneur’s address book software could scan the web to keep it constantly updated with fresh addresses for customers, suppliers and others. If your calendar software could look into your online bank statement, it could automatically let you know when a check will clear. In the extreme version of this vision, all data everywhere could be read and exchanged by any computer program, to the benefit of users.

Doing the same for even a significant fraction of the billions of pages and trillions of bits of data on the web is obviously a tall order. The tools for generating RDF are, at present, costly and hard to use, which is slowing things down and frustrating semantic web visionaries. “A lot of work on the semantic web assumes it’s already there, saying, ‘If we had millions of pages in RDF, what would we do with them?’” Etzioni says. “People can tag, but they haven’t shown the ability or propensity to write reams of RDF on their own.”

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13 Responses to “Web 3.0 Nearly Here?”

Tricia, on March 23rd, 2007 at 8:44 am Said:

Sounds good. I haven’t heard much about Web 3.0 yet – but it looks like it’s on it’s way.
Everyday Weekender, on March 23rd, 2007 at 4:21 pm Said:

I don’t know.. it seems kinda soon.. I think it’s all just hype at the moment… just another buzz word to spark some more interest i guess
Andrew Ian Dodge, on March 24th, 2007 at 9:15 pm Said:

I think most people have a hard enough time getting their heads round Web 2.0 But its good to see the web evolving with technology.
digitalnomad, on March 27th, 2007 at 2:38 pm Said:

Just did a link back to this info posted here about We 3.0. I will send you a separate email on it.

Thanks
Nathan Drach, on March 30th, 2007 at 12:19 pm Said:

check out this post I made on some web2.0 research I found http://www.nathandrach.info/archives/234.html
digitalnomad, on March 30th, 2007 at 3:33 pm Said:

Watched the video and tried to leave a comment at Nathan’s site, but it kept timing out.

I think Web 3.0 will be more about pervasive mobility. Being more wireless and having greater access at little or no cost almost all the time. Just a thought.
Nathan Drach, on March 30th, 2007 at 4:46 pm Said:

Thanks digitalnomad, not sure why it’s timing out. Tested and seemed to work. Anyway, I loved that video!

Looking at my blackberry pearl, I really hope to hell that the mobile scene heats up. I have some projects that mobility is a hot topic on, but the mobile scene isn’t that mature yet.
JMH, on April 1st, 2007 at 5:47 am Said:

Thanks for the linkback Digi. I appreciate it.

Thanks for the extra info as well Nathan.
digitalnomad, on April 1st, 2007 at 4:40 pm Said:

To Nathan:
It will happen. I had friends in Atlanta that worked at Lucent that claim this stuff has been invented for years.

Problem is, they can’t bring it to market, since it would destroy the market for the current technology that are using right now.

Kind of like the issue between gas and hydrogen. I don’t know…believe it or not.

I tend to think it is true, when you think about all the hard wiring (copper) and all the fiber optics that has been laid over the past 10-15 years.
digitalnomad, on April 1st, 2007 at 4:44 pm Said:

To Nathan:
Here is another point. In emerging markets like China, they are forgoing the harwire route. Everything there is geared towards wireless.
Nathan Drach, on April 1st, 2007 at 4:51 pm Said:

To bad I am in southern Wisconsin! I do understand what you are saying though. I guess I will just have to do with limited text and slow downloads on the Blackberry for now.
tech, on April 7th, 2007 at 5:45 am Said:

I think most people have a hard enough time getting their heads round Web 2.0 But its good to see the web evolving with technology.

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