What is the Web 3.0 all about?

Posted by zEro on Friday, May 9, 2008
In Article, Development, Web.

So we’ve come across the term Web 2.0 a lot now, and we see it being used with virtually all new applications that are coming out. Just when you thought “Web 2.0″ was a useless meme, researchers and forcasters say there will be a Web 3.0, too.

Yes. But contrary to popular belief, these versions of the Web are not upgrades of a single service or patches to an old one. It’s basically a whole new philosophy of approach towards information and the web. How to organize it, how to index it, how to share it, how to search it, how to store it, and all that. With internet availability being a smaller issue today, than it was 10 years ago, and with speeds much faster now, the Web is taking a whole new meaning for users and publishers.

We are entering the age where information is more meshed together than ever before. I came across a wonderful article that actually explained how a few technologies could help the advent of the Web 3.0 and how it would be fascinating to see new applications emerge that would make information access much, much easier and simpler.

Gaming today is quite linear in terms of information that they require. Gaming today relies only on the information that the game contains. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have a game that could actually change dynamically to the real world scenarios and events?

Read the article, watch this video and give me your feedback.

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