By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. John Markoff[Edit][Delete]: Entrepreneurs See a Web Guided by Common Sense, New York Times [Edit][Delete] November 13, 2006
It was inevitable that there would be an attempt to define Web 3.0 and I guess in retrospect it is only mildly surprising that the redefinition comes from the business community and is a rehash of the orchestrated services promised in internet bubble versions of the Semantic Web. The latest is in this New York Times article (which in a very Web 1.0 manner will disappear from circulation in a few days). But here's the same story, more or less, from Zeldman last January. Here's a ZDNet article citing Tim Berners-Lee, no less, from last November, saying the same thing. Or here. Or here. Or here. Really, what we are getting is no advance over current thinking. Don't buy into it - yes, there will be a 'next generation' web, probably in about five years (which means we'll see early traces in two or three years). It probably won't be called 'Web 3.0'. More...