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John Markoff of the New York Times recently suggested naming this third-generation of the Web, "Web 3.0."

From this broader perspective, Web 3.0 might be defined as a third-generation of the Web enabled by the > convergence of several key emerging technology trends >: Ubiquitous Connectivity Broadband adoption Mobile Internet access Mobile devices Network Computing Software-as-a-service business models Web services interoperability Distributed computing (P2P, grid computing, hosted "cloud computing" server farms such as Amazon S3) Open Technologies Open APIs and protocols Open data formats Open-source software platforms Open data (Creative Commons, Open Data License, etc.) Open Identity Open identity (OpenID) Open reputation Portable identity and personal data (for example, the ability to port your user account and search history from one service to another) The Intelligent Web Semantic Web technologies (RDF, OWL, SWRL, SPARQL, Semantic application platforms, and statement-based datastores such as triplestores, tuplestores and associative databases) Distributed databases—or what I call "The World Wide Database" (wide-area distributed database interoperability enabled by Semantic Web technologies) Intelligent applications (natural language processing, machine learning, machine reasoning, autonomous agents)

third generation of Internet-based services that collectively comprise what might be called 'the intelligent Web'—such as those using semantic web, microformats, natural language search, data-mining, machine learning, recommendation agents, and artificial intelligence technologies—which emphasize machine-facilitated understanding of information in order to provide a more productive and intuitive user experience.

timeline and definition

the third-generation Web is quite different from that of Web 2.0, this new generation of the Web probably does deserve its own name

Web 5.0 - possibly - would follow with a thought-accessed, thought-controlled Internet, as humans continue to intimately merge with our technology - with the ability of entering virtual worlds as easily as blinking one's eyelid.

will result in making the Web more connected, more open, and more intelligent. It will transform the Web from a network of separately siloed applications and content repositories to a more seamless and interoperable whole.

The term Web 2.0 was never clearly defined and even today if one asks ten people what it means one will likely get ten different definitions. However, most people in the Web industry would agree that Web 2.0 focuses on several major themes, including AJAX, social networking, folksonomies, lightweight collaboration, social bookmarking, and media sharing.

shift back from front-end improvements towards back-end infrastructure level upgrades >

upgrades to

It will transform the Web from a network of separately siloed applications and content repositories to a more seamless and interoperable whole.

At this juncture the focus of innovation will start shift back from front-end improvements towards back-end infrastructure level upgrades to the Web.

These trends have been gestating for a decade and will soon reach a tipping point. At this juncture the third-generation of the Web will start.

Apart from the intelligent web list all the properties listed in this article for Web 3.0 are already here (in fact I thought most of them were supposed to be Web 2.0 - maybe they got a premature upgrade).

While the innovations and practices of Web 2.0 will continue to develop, they are not the final step in the evolution of the Web.

five to ten years

Breitband, Google und dessen Wisdom-of-the-crowds-Algorhythmus, stark vereinfachte und verbilligte Software (schon mal Wordpress benutzt? ;-) vor allem dank Open Source, dramatisch gefallene Server/Infrastruktur-Kosten. Und eben, wie oben gesagt, die Kommunikationsaktivität aller Nutzer, die für virale Marketingeffekte sorgt.

... oder brauchte es dafür schlicht nur eine gewisse kritische Masse an Onlinern und Online-Nutzung? (bzw. sind Blogs nur das Instrument en vogue? Oder hätte es 1997 mit Foren und Mailinglists die gleiche Konsumentenpower geben können, wenn es so viele Onliner wie heute gegeben hätte?) Das mit der kritischen Masse ist sicher wichtig, um die Online-Mundpropaganda richtig wirken zu lassen. Dazu kommt aber vor allem die Dezentralisierung, Demokratisierung und Verbilligung durch das Open Source Movement und durch billigen Webspace, etc. Außerdem nochmal: Google. Das konnte man 1997 so noch nicht absehen. An Blogs ist dazu eine Sache anders, die Mailinglisten oder Foren so nie hätten leisten können

"consumer empowerment" (Artikel dazu, PDF, englisch) nennen kann: sie verschieben einen Teil der (Marketing-)Macht an die Abnehmer/Konsumenten.