Web 3.0 changes all of this by completely disrupting the technology and economics of the traditional software industry. The new rallying cry of Web 3.0 is that anyone can innovate, anywhere. Code is written, collaborated on, debugged, tested, deployed, an ... Read More

Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, on Web 3.0 ... Read More

Web Three Dot Oh - 5 minute shotgun presentation on Web 3.0 ... Read More

What is Web 3.0? My talk went well, and I did talk briefly about how we should think about Web 3.0. I know other people have said it's the Semantic Web, and maybe that use of the name will stick. ... Read More

Y Combinator's model dovetails perfectly with the new start-up ethic in Silicon Valley. It's dramatically cheaper to start a company now than it was in the dot-com boom, and possible to build a substantial operation before requiring venture capital or ach ... Read More

Astoria exposes "data services" that enable applications to access and manipulate data over regular HTTP connections, using URIs to identify pieces of information within the data service, and simple payload formats such as XML and JSON to represent the da ... Read More

The big picture is always exciting and important, but the mechanics matter too. How exactly do we unlock and correlate information from separate web sites? Ideally, we'd like for all web sites to offer simple and elegant APIs - like Amazon, del.icio.us an ... Read More

The latest industry going the way of web three dot oh is that of classifieds. We saw them go 2.0 with excellent sites like simplyhired and edgeio. Now people are starting to wrap applications and aggregators around this data. ... Read More

Whenever a new technology comes along, people first use it to recreate the old ways of doing things. The first photographs were still-lifes and portraits. The first films were of stage plays. The first typefaces looked like calligraphy. The first TV shows ... Read More

This in turn leads us to the rumblings and mumblings we have begun to hear about Web 3.0, which seems to provide us with a guarantee that vague web-versioning nomenclature is here to stay. By extending Tim Berners-Lee's explanations, the Web 3.0 would be ... Read More

Semantic technology, which helps computers understand data better, is particularly useful when combining large data sets. It's also useful for search applications because semantic technology lets computers infer relationships among data elements that aren ... Read More

About a week ago, Facebook made noises about launching classifieds and now MySpace has made a deal to take on job ads. This is the next stage of the classified meltdown. Stage 1: They move from newspapers to new services, like Craigslist and Monster, onli ... Read More

As I said the idea is merely an extension of Web 2.0 architecutre meaning that Web 3.0 takes over where Web 2.0 leaves off. So, why not Web 2.1? I don’t know. Apparently I do not have the power to create naming conventions. Regardless it adds layers suc ... Read More

It’s a simple stack that shows raw APIs at the foundation layer, aggregations at the next layer, and applications at the top layer. The left-hand axis uses dollar signs to illustrate that margin (and thus profitability) is most rewarding at the applicat ... Read More

Let’s quickly recap the terminology: 3C = Content, Commerce, Community | 4th C = Context | P = Personalization | VS = Vertical Search This, I submit, is the formula for the future: Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS). ... Read More