web 3.0 bullshit

long time not blogged… here is a random thought which grows in my mind for some time now. Leo blogged some time ago about web 3.0 being something like this definition:

web3.0 = web2.0 + semantic web

Well this brings me to thinking again at what’s web2.0 about. And why did we need a new name for it, it is still the web isn’t it?

I believe there is no new technology with web2.0, it is the concept we have of the web which changed. With web1.0 we understood the web as the set of http documents and links between them. Then we realised that the web includes also the people authoring these documents or browsing them, the very idea of the web changed and we needed to change the name to distinguish between the two concepts leading to this two definitions:

web = set of interconnected documents

web2.0 = web + humans

Then following these definitions what would be the web3.0, I believe the next change of concept will be when we will understand that there is no difference between the web and the world, both being a set of interconnected thoughts, leading to the definition:

web3.0 = a set of interconnected thoughts + humans

Where is the semantic web in all that? I don’t know.

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One Response to “web 3.0 bullshit”

  1. Pär Lannerö Says:
    April 21, 2007 at 10:13 pm

    Well it’s quite obvious where the semantic web is in your last equation, isn’t it?!

    From _my_ understanding, the Semantic web = a set of interconnected statements (with explicit semantics). And statements with explicit semantics usually represent thoughts.
    So your set of interconnected thoughts ARE the semantic web.

    Thus, your last equation can be rewritten as follows:
    Web 3.0 = semantic web + humans

    But since the semantic web doesn’t come without the traditional web, but co-exists with it, the above equation can be replaced by:

    Web 3.0 = semantic web + web + humans

    Combining this with your second equation, this is what you get:

    Web 3.0 = semantic web + web 2.0

    Which is actually Leo’s definition!

    On the other hand, I’ve seen several other definitions. For example Cris Fralic’s:

    Web 2.0 is all about discussing what Web 2.0 is all about!

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