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What is Web 3.0?

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What is Web 3.0?

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I did talk briefly about how we should think about Web 3.0

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The psychological experience of using the Internet is undergoing slow but constant change. Up until now, using the Web has involved “going out” to Web sites. However, this is changing. Understanding this transformation, and plotting its direction, can provide us with a new understanding of where our Web technology is going. This destination can be called “Web 3.0.” Underneath the Hood Very little of the core protocols that define how the Internet works have changed over the last twenty years. What has changed, and very slowly, are some basic hardware upgrades and the software interfaces we use to transfer information. These gradual, almost superficial changes, have done little to change what the Internet actually does from a technological perspective, but have greatly altered our perception of the “Internet experience”. Computers and Telephone Lines The Internet is computers and telephone lines. On the computers, there are some programs and data files. That’s it, really. There are no b

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” As with most of you I have no idea what to expect Web 3.0 to be, but if I had to guess it would be Web applications that can be taken offline in an instant. For example, you’re about to leave for a long trip and you want access to your email while you’re on the plane. All you would have to do it pull up Gmail, hit a button, and you would instantly be taken offline without needing to wait for any sort of synchronization to complete. Eric Schmidt, Google’s Chairman and CEO, attended the SEOUL Digital Forum this year. A reporter asked if he could define Web 3.0 since we already know what Web 2.0 is. The first thing Schmidt said was that “Web 2.0 is a marketing term, and I think you just invented Web 3.0.” While that is a clever response, he didn’t leave the guy hanging. Here’s what Schmidt thinks the definition of Web 3.0 is: Web 3.0 will ultimately be seen as applications that are pieced together. There are a number of characteristics: the applications are relatively small, the data is

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After some grumbling about “marketing terms,” Schmidt obliged, saying that, to him, Web 3.0 is all about the simplification and democratization of software development, as people would begin to draw on the tools and data floating around in the Internet “cloud” to cobble together custom applications, which they would then share “virally” with friends and colleagues. Said Schmidt: My prediction would be that Web 3.0 would ultimately be seen as applications that are pieced together [and that share] a number of characteristics: the applications are relatively small; the data is in the cloud; the applications can run on any device – PC or mobile phone; the applications are very fast and they’re very customizable; and furthermore the applications are distributed essentially virally, literally by social networks, by email. You won’t go to the store and purchase them. … That’s a very different application model than we’ve ever seen in computing … and likely to be very, very large. There’s

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