So I recently started tracking the spread of web3.0 hype, buzz, FUD, whatever you want to call it and there's no doubt that it's spreading like wildfire across the inter-blog-web-social-net-icio.us-sphere.
Check out technorati mentions of "web 3.0" and also related tags on del.icio.us.
Reminds me of the hype and buzz that ensued with the evolution of the "next greatest" distributed computing technologies over the past 15 years. Remember how we went from CORBA > DCOM > RMI > XML/SOAP/WS and all the hype around xml and webservices.
Here are some initial thoughts.
web2.0 = XML/SOAP/WS for the masses and the maturation of the NKOTB like eBay, Amazon, Google, and Yahoo. Then came AJAX and the rise of public apis, the concept of the mashup, and the domination of socially-driven sites like myspace, friendster, linkedin, flickr, del.icio.us.
Then just within the past few months, we've had a slew of press releases from enterprise software vendors like IBM, BEA, Oracle, and MSFT trying to bring web2.0 techniques to the enterprise. Something that for a time was being called enterpriseweb2.0 or enterprise2.0. Salesforce.com appears to be the model citizen of an enterprise2.0 company.
Now all of a sudden we have folks trying to spin the W3C Semantic Web Activity and the genius behind TBL's vision as the special sauce needed to get us to web3.0? And then today I see people talking about AI being an integral part of web3.0? Come on people. The masses have yet to understand the potential and value of web2.0. Let's not clutter the playing field by spinning up a new version for the web. Let's get web2.0 feature complete before starting another dev cycle ok?
From what I can tell, it looks like most of these web3.0 buzz-mongers are trying to mashup TBL's vision for the semantic web with the interesting trends, techniques, and phenomena driving web2.0.
Is web3.0 nothing more than the realization of TBL's vision of the semantic web with the current trends fueling web2.0? Someone say it ain't so? And I previously blogged about how web2.0 makes my brain hurt. web3.0 might just make it explode. Enough. Stop the madness
11.19.2006
don't believe the [web3.0] hype?
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It's good to know I'm not alone in wondering what all of the hype is about this time, some of us are still waiting for the accurate real-time translation stuff from the original web hype. SysTran/Bablefish to an admirable job but are nowhere near acurate enough to have a conversation.
As you say, lets get everything out of beta and working properly before we start a whole new round of development and venture capital craziness.
Sarah - Thanks for the comments. You make a GREAT point. Isn't web2.0 still in Beta? Heck some sites are still at Alpha. Shouldn't we try to finish web2.0 beta before we get started on web3.0? lol.
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