The Third-Generation Web is Coming

I would also add to this definition another trend that has been a major factor in Web 2.0—the emergence of the mobile Internet and mobile devices (including camera phones) as a major new platform driving the adoption and growth of the Web, particularly outside of the United States.  

 Using the same pattern as the above Wikipedia definition, Web 3.0 could be defined as: “Web 3.0, a phrase coined by John Markoff of the New York Times in 2006, refers to a supposed third generation of Internet-based services that collectively comprise what might be called ‘the intelligent Web’—such as those using semantic web, microformats, natural language search, data-mining, machine learning, recommendation agents, and artificial intelligence technologies—which emphasize machine-facilitated understanding of information in order to provide a more productive and intuitive user experience.”  

  Ubiquitous Connectivity  Broadband adoption  Mobile Internet access  Mobile devices  Network Computing  Software-as-a-service business models  Web services interoperability  Distributed computing (P2P, grid computing, hosted “cloud computing” server farms such as Amazon S3)  Open Technologies  Open APIs and protocols  Open data formats  Open-source software platforms  Open data (Creative Commons, Open Data License, etc.)

Open Identity  Open identity (OpenID)  Open reputation  Portable identity and personal data (for example, the ability to port your user account and search history from one service to another)  The Intelligent Web  Semantic Web technologies (RDF, OWL, SWRL, SPARQL, Semantic application platforms, and statement-based datastores such as triplestores, tuplestores and associative databases)  Distributed databases—or what I call “The World Wide Database” (wide-area distributed database interoperability enabled by Semantic Web technologies)  Intelligent applications (natural language processing, machine learning, machine reasoning, autonomous agents

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