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I already blogged about the current Web 3.0 discussion ransomed by Mahalo (which seems to be a great project by the way) founder Jason Calacanis.

But I think one of the best definitions is made by Niva Spivak from Radar Networks, who writes:

Web 3.0, in my opinion is best defined as the third-decade of the Web (2010 - 2020), during which time several key technologies will become widely used. Chief among them will be RDF and the technologies of the emerging Semantic Web. While Web 3.0 is not synonymous with the Semantic Web (there will be several other important technology shifts in that period), it will be largely characterized by semantics in general.

Nova created a very interesting graphic, which shows us, that Web 3.0 starts 2010 in his opinion.

What’s in my mind is, how people will notice, when Web 3.0 is all over the internet. I don’t know how to differ between Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 in practise. Of course, we can speculate about what Web 3.0 will be, but who will identify it, if Web 3.0 is here?

I have a friend, Lutz Thielmann, who visited one of the Lunch 2.0’s I organized, and he worked a long time in Semantic Web sector. I asked him for a book suggestion for beginners. Would be cool to read a good book about that. But, hum, I am totally overload with books. Here are some books to review, some classical books which I want to read (for example Kafka, a great author) and I’m currently reading Robert Scoble’s “Naked Conversations” and have a lot of critism most for the German translators.

In an interview with David Wilkinson, who is running the Techzi Network, I got asked about what I think what Web 3.0 will be. It was in January. I answered, that Jajah and Jaxtr will be big players in Web 3.0 and Open Source will be a big part of Web 3.0, but as I think today, I failed.

Today, 10 month after the mentioned interview, I think Web 3.0 is all about portable Social Networks, Semantic Web, WebOS and maybe Micro Blogging (I’m not really sure about that). But I think, Web 3.0 will flood the Web earlier than we can imagine.

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