Happy Birthday
Today is my 50th birthday. It’s quite a milestone.
There’s another birthday of sorts just around the corner. The World Wide Web will soon turn 3.0 – Happy Birthday!
So, you’re probably wondering what Web 3.0 means to the average user? Well, here’s a short summary of how the web got to be 3.0 and what’s in store for the future.
About three years ago Dale Dougherty created the term Web 2.0 and the idea soon took on a life of its own. At first, it was little more than a concept, a belief that the Internet would resume its prominent position in society and commerce after the dot com bubble burst.
Web 3.0 is defined as the “Semantic Web,” a term coined by Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the (first) World Wide Web. Basically, the Semantic Web is a place where machines can read Web pages like humans read them, a place where search engines and software agents can better stroll throughout the Internet and find what we’re looking for. “It’s a set of standards that turns the Web into one big database,” says Nova Spivack, CEO of Radar Networks, one of the leading voices of this new-age Internet.
Many, however, are skeptical about whether the Semantic Web—or at least, Berners-Lee’s view of it—will actually take hold. They point to other technologies capable of reinventing the online world as we know it, from 3D virtual worlds to Web-connected appliances.
Web 3.0 could mean many things. What I’m hoping for most are applications and tools that make life simpler rather than more complex.
Tim Anderson
President
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