EU bids to dominate future nebulous buzzword

Web 3.0

Web 1.0- Forums. Anyone can start a new topic, anyone can reply.

Web 2.0- Blogs. 1 person can start a new topic, anyone can reply.

Web 3.0- ????. 1 Person can start a new topic, 1 person can reply?

Web 1.0- Geocities. Poorly designed webpages with annoying layouts, videos, and music.

Web 2.0- Facebook. Poorly designed webpages with annoying layouts, videos, and music. Much easier to spend money.

Web 3.0- ????. Poorly designed webpages with annoying layouts, videos, and music that automatically takes money out of your account.

Web 1.0- IRC. Real time chat anyone can talk or listen.

Web 2.0- Twitter. "Real time" chat 1 where 1 person can talk, anyone can listen.

Web 3.0- ???? "Real Time" chat where everyone can talk, no one bothers to listen?

Web 1.0- Software. You send a company money once to buy a word processing application.

Web 2.0- SAAS. You send a company money every month to rent a word processing application. If you stop sending money, you lose your documents.

Web 3.0- ????. You send a company every month to write your documents! If you stop sending money, you get sued for copyright infringement.

In Web 3.0, the cloud virtualizes you!

Web x.y

I really don't care, as long as it includes four major usability features

1) Binning browsers that don't even try to meet standards (Internet Exploder for example...)

2) Application servers that refuse to accept postings in text-speak

3) The badgers keep dancing

4) Some way to automatically correct the damn spelling on "Would you be kind enough to furnish me with a cheese burger?"

Mine's the one with a grammar guide and a small Weebl in the pocket.

@ Mark

I lol'd. Although after reading that I realised that what you said is atually true.

Thumbs-up for the aforementioned lol.

Web 6.9

Trust me - it will be big....

prediction

By the time it comes 'round it'll be called web 3D, not web 3.0. With IPv6 and a proliferation of small network-aware devices embedded in nearly everything, the "cloud" will take on a literal meaning, and there'll be a new protocol layer designed to mediate between virtual and physical location. Quite depressing, really.

Web 3.0 Definitive Definition. Definitely.

A great big shit sandwich. With cheese. And olives. That costs £24.99. And has advertising burned onto the bun. And, right after eating it, an annoying waitress wants you to fill in a questionnaire about your "dining experience".

More BS for idiot nuMedia to postulate about.

... enough of the point oh's.

I dont know how many times i have heard 'nu media' people go on about making something more web 2.0 usually citing things like different user roles or use of AJAX.

Am I the only one that thinks we are already up to about web 10.9, since surely the move to www and Mr Berners Lee's efforts were 2.0

Just because these numpties came late to the party they want to start the counting again.

There is no 2.0 nor 3.0 ... its just the web and it just going to change all the time anyway, if it had to have version numbers then surely it should follow linux versioning, i.e. major.major.minor ..e.g. 2.0.4

Web 3.0?

I can just hear the sounds of the consultants gravy train pulling into Brussels right now. I'm sure the whole matter of definition of Web3.0 can be sorted out over a convivial lunch or 2.

I'm also sure that it won't come cheap, if we really have to have a web3.0 can we please ensure that the EU is in the gaurds van, rather than the vanguard. i.e. right at the back. I am sure they must have better ways of spending my tax.

Wait for Web 3.01

We all know that Integer-numbered releases of anything are always flawed: So forget Web3.0 and wait a few months until they release Web3.01 with the grosser bugs fixed.