Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Web 3.0

Web 3.0 is a layer on top of the current web that will attempt to make the web less of a catalog and more of a guide. It will utilize artificial intelligence for “intelligent” web applications. It is believed by some that the “openness” of Web 3.0 will facilitate collaborative software development that will make SaaS a reality.
This article gives a great overview of Web 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0:
http://www.techcrunchit.com/2008/08/01/welcome-to-web-30-now-your-other-computer-is-a-data-center/

However, it should be noted that apparently the definition of Web 3.0 is still being debated. Tim O’Reilly believes that while a change is underway is will be called something other than Web 3.0 because it will span other technologies like sensors, speech recognition, and mobile technology. Others believe that Web 3.0 refers more to a time period than specific technology. The article “The Best Definition Imaginable” contains a roadmap of different technology predictions that comprise the various stages of the web.


Other Great References:
“Entrepreneurs See A Web Guided by Common Sense,”
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/12/business/12web.html Accessed August 12, 2008.

“Today’s Web 3.0 Nonsense Blogstorm,”
http://radar.oreilly.com/2007/10/todays-web-30-nonsense-blogsto.html Accessed August 12, 2008.

“The Best Official Definition Imaginable,”
http://novaspivack.typepad.com/nova_spivacks_weblog/2007/10/web-30----the-a.html Accessed August 12, 2008.

"Key Trends,"
http://www.suite101.com/view_image.cfm/432384 Accessed August 12, 2008.

6 comments:

wincoder said...

I don;t think we've really gotten into Web 2.0 yet to any great degree. It seems a bit premature to be looking at V3. Besides, I see a lot of this as evolution not pradigm change.

This seems a lot like hand-wavy prediction stuff.

Nigel

asdasd said...

Mmmmmmmm artificially intelligent web-based malware. I can't wait!

Steve's CS855 Blog said...

Anybody believe that AI is mature enough (after only 30 or 40 years) to power the next generation of Web?
-steve

Mike Prausa said...

I'm going to have to jump on the Web 3.0 skepticism bandwagon, too. These concepts have been around for quite a while now, but their application has been fairly limited. I think a key piece of Web 3.0 revovles around structured metadata, which can be difficult to produce in itself.

One of my favorite articles on the topic of metadata is: "Metacrap: Putting the torch to the seven straw-men of the meta-utopia". It's written more tongue-in-cheek than anything, but the points certainly seem valid to me.

Carol's CS-855 Blog said...

I like the concept and am searching on how Web 3.0 will come about for my last paper. This is good stuff. Thanks Kristin. I look forward to reading more on this topic.
With neural networks and fuzzy logic the Web 3.0 concepts will sooner or later take off. This is just the type of thing that H. Chen at the AI lab in Univ of Arizona is working on.

http://ai.bpa.arizona.edu/hchen/slide/NTU-BIMining-July2008.ppt

askill said...

Web 3.0 will be hard to recognize since its going to be more evolutionary than revolutionary so maybe the Web 3.0 community ought to tell us when they are up and running ;-}