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Collaborating Using Web 3.0

Mid 204 Dale Dougherty dreamed up the Web 2.0 concept. Web 2.0, the social web was about consumers sharing content and ideas.

Web 2.0 included almost any site, service, or technology that promoted sharing and collaboration: blogs and wikis, tags and RSS feeds, del.icio.us and Flickr, MySpace and YouTube.

The Web 2.0 concept blankets so many disparate ideas, it serves little more than a reality in our collective consciousness.

Whilst Web 2.0 is still very much 'work in progress', technology platform developments are already heralding Web 3.0 and beyond.

Web 3.0 Semantic Web

Web 3.0 is often called the Semantic Web, a term coined by Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented the first World Wide Web.

The Semantic Web is a set of standards that uses machines to read Web pages and search engines and software agents to troll the Net to find what we're looking for. Web 3.0 effectively turns the Web into one big database.

A semantic web agent does more than just search out solutions to your problems. It can be programmed to do almost anything, from automatically booking your next vacation to researching a term paper. It requires a reannotation of the Web, adding all sorts of machine-readable metadata to the human-readable Web pages used today.

Web 3.0 Standards

Official Web 3.0 standards describing this metadata are in place:

Recourse Description Framework (RDF)
Web Ontology Language (OWL)

These standards are already being adopted into real-world sites, services, and other tools. - Semantic Web metadata underpins Yahoo!'s new food site.

Such a complete reannotation of the Web is a massive undertaking and will underpin the rollout and success of Web 3.0

Web 3.0 Virtuous Web

Virtuous cycle of Web 3.0 - Gil Penchina, Wikia, addressing Le Web 3 Paris, France Monday 11 December 2006 [7:12]

Free culture still has barriers, is not easy to use. Maintaining a blog content depends upon having sufficient readers to maintain an interest through reader feedback.

Open serving can be applied to web computing. Peer to peer networking is getting organised by bandwidth owners to drive content collaboration.

The business models around bandwidth and content are evolving and as yet, not fully understood at full commercial levels.