Seems like everyone is throwing out there thoughts on what web 3.0 is. Well, how about a few more opinions.
I argue that the evolution from 1.0 to 2.0 (and now 3.0) is more than just technology and ability of things online, but the level of interaction online. I know I’m right, but for the sake of your disbelief, I’ll elaborate.
Web 1.0, if there really was such a thing, was just putting up text on a site. Every did it, and they still do it. Any news site is a simple web 1.0 site. Just slap some content on a page and boom! Web 1.0.
Web 2.0 then came around whenever it did (jury is still out on that I think…but they argue 2004). Web 2., in my view, is the simple addition of interaction online. Allow people to comment, chat, and hold a discussion — now you’re talking web 2.0. Sure, the developers out there are going to start saying that web 2.0 has “a look.” Sure does! but that’s not what I’m talking about in this post. Web 2.0 brought with it a certain level of interaction. Things could be pending and moderated. People could flame and parade around the net with an open level of interaction. Every site needs a profile and you have to get your username before someone else does. Oh! And we can share some info with some people and hide it from others.
Which all brings us to the currently non-existent web 3.0. How does the level of interaction change? Well, I’d argue, but I don’t have to. Web 3.0 is going to bring internet conversations to the real world. We’re going to see not a shift from online conversation to offline, rather conversations existing in both online and offline worlds. People will bring their online networks to the real world and bring their real world networks to the online world. I’m not just talking about discussing with your BFF what your mutual friend posted on their wall today. (wall being a web 2.0 thing). What I’m talking about is there being specific mediums and ways to meet people, communicate with people, interact with people, above and beyond what we have seen so far.
The things I’m talking about are involving mobile devices, PDAs, heck — why not a good ol’ fashion piece of snail mail? There are going to be new ways to reach out and connect to people. To see what’s happening where you are at and access live info on that. I remember seeing on American Inventor someone trying to pitch a device where you set up a profile with your likes/dislikes and then you go to a bar. If someone has a profile that is compatible with yours, the device (cell phone app, whatever) would tell you and then you go meet up.
The web is always changing. Web 2.0 will be around for about another 2 years. We need more videos online before people are tired of them. The music and movie industries have more battles to fight and I feel major TV networks need to get the rest of their shows online (come on CBS! Get full episodes of the Amazing Race!).
