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Web 3.0

I read this article today. Yesterday, by coincidence, I was reading a web design magazine at work that was packed full of tutorials and ideas that, after reading this article, was all stuff that could be used to define the prelude to “Web 3.0.” Here’s a quote from the article concerning some of the key ingredients of Web 3.0.

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.
• ubiquitous connectivity, broadband adoption, mobile Internet access and mobile devices;
• network computing, software-as-a-service business models, Web services interoperability, distributed computing, grid computing and cloud computing;
• open technologies, open APIs and protocols, open data formats, open-source software platforms and open data (e.g. Creative Commons, Open Data License);
• open identity, OpenID, open reputation, roaming portable identity and personal data;
• the intelligent web, Semantic Web technologies such as RDF, OWL, SWRL, SPARQL, GRDDL, semantic application platforms, and statement-based data stores;
• distributed databases, the “World Wide Database” (enabled by Semantic Web technologies); and intelligent applications, natural language processing, machine learning, machine reasoning, autonomous agents.

This is all very exciting stuff, but to be honest, I’m still lagging way behind on the current incarnation of what the web has to offer. I’m hoping I can catch myself up before we’re all flooded with the new model, rendering all that I’m doing now obsolete.

The article also features a YouTube video that I remember watching a while back. I’ll embed it here. It’s entertaining and quite good at explaining the concept of “Web 2.0″ and what is going on today.