web 3.0

If Web 2.0' is indeed just a label - and a blurry label at that - why not announce the advent of Web 2.8, Web 3.0 or Web 7.0?

The promoters of the Twine social network service claimed in 2007 that

Web 3.0 is best-defined as the coming decade of the Web, during which time semantic technologies will help to transform the Web from a global file-server into something that is more like a worldwide database. By making information more machine-understandable, connected and reusable, the Semantic Web will enable software and websites to grow smarter ... Yahoo! was the leader of Web 1.0. Google is the leader of Web 2.0. We don't yet know who will be the leader of Web 3.0. It's a bold new frontier, but Twine is a strong first step, and we're very excited about it.

Tim Berners-Lee commented

People keep asking what Web 3.0 is. I think maybe when you've got an overlay of scalable vector graphics - everything rippling and folding and looking misty - on Web 2.0 and access to a semantic Web integrated across a huge space of data, you'll have access to an unbelievable data resource.

A journalist in the Guardian took a different approach, commenting that

if Web 2.0 loosely describes services that facilitate content sharing, Web 3.0 might mean those built around recommendation.

 

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