We are seeing more real-time searching, better meta filters, better more stable web-based apps. I think this is a tremendous time to make something amazing.

--Geography matters. Local=good, whether it's food, small business or Twitter friends.

--Filters=good. People seem to be longing for a shakeout in many different businesses, with quality rising to the top (remember that word quality?). Real frustration with noise and overload exists, thus making the search for structured data and personal filters more important.

--Real-time is huge. Many companies are built on timed data dumps, with the timing affecting workflow and cash flow, but the always-on generation will soon pressure businesses to provide real-time online information. Banks that don't post real balances in a timely way, or insurance companies that take weeks or months to process paperwork, or government agencies that don't provide timely transparent data will face pressures from millennials demanding faster, more accurate information.

I agree - the linked data flowers blooming concept of emergent properties

I think the issue of Web 1 vs Web 2 vs Web 3 is similar to the difference between Data vs Information vs Knowledge

Its the connections between the items - the richer the connections and the context the more we move from data to information to knowledge.

As the connections between "things" on the web develop the more we move from web 1 to web 2 to web 3.

I guess we could say that 2009 is where we think we see Web 3 - the rich connections resulting from Open Data initiatives.

I think we'll see many innovations in "revenue models", companies will begin working together to acheive this.

http://wearetheweb.wordpress.com/2009/05/17/what-the-web-wants/

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>* Mobile (location-based, so you could say that's smarter use of data too)

Yahoo's PlaceMaker

From the tech perspective both are rather trivial, but new use patterns and user benefits emerge. Same of micro blogging. It is so trivial and simple and _because_ of that so powerful.

There is a new **granularity**, "atomicity" and a kind of "chemistry" on the way - like when you can jump in twitter from persons to hashtags to new interesting persons and their social bubble in - of course - realtime, and this is the "new lightweight" to give honour to the 2.0 veteran O'Reilly :)

WOA = REST + WWW

, where WWW = web technology stack (HTTP(s) + HTML + XMPP) and REST = a software design pattern defined by Fielding that is exemplified, in part, by:
* Everything is stateless, resource, has a URI, only representations are exchanged...

Specifically, this is revolutionary for the enterprise because it makes scaling dramatically easier, extensibility very simple and low cost, RAD more achievable, extracts value from existing systems and SOA infrastructure....

A *very* brief PPT I used during GlueCon explaining somewhat what I'm referring to can be found here: http://www.slideshare.net/Roebot/what-is-woa-presented-at-wwwglueconcom

Realtime sharing of experiences is another trend. For example, RSS reader for live video streaming.

tokbox and meeting24.tv may be one of such services.

Closed source companies like twitter, facebook, myspace, and frindfeed do not have to listen to what the users that generate value for them say. This is because you, the user that have given your content and helped put money in the closed source companies pockets own nothing…Not even the content that you have added to thier silos….Try to easlity export your content to test this out….Becuase you the closed source application user does not have any ownership of the application, the “owners” can do what they want….And becuase the twitter application is closed source, the owners never fear the possiblity that you might create your own version with the fetaures that you want. You might not do this, but I beleive the fact that you could would have a dramatic effect on the how companies treated the users tha gave them their billion dollar valuations.

Closed source applications like twitter, facebook, myspace, and frindfeed by their nature assume that you the user are a stupid child like slave that needs to be told what is good for you. Closed source companies like twitter, facbook, myspace, and frindfeed by their nature create the framework of a share cropping system where you the user/content creator work their fields, and obediently follow their rules.

You didn't get the sarcasm? Anyway, some people do.

You can't "Push" to the browser yet as it would require a socket to be opened and left open, which is possible yet. However, the closest we can get to the REAL> real-time web is with technologies like BOSH servers and APIs like strophe.js. Check out http://obama.collecta.com to see the best example of pushing to the browser. Hint, it uses long-polling, not interval polling.

To me, Web 3.0 is all about data portability and owning your identity and content. Being able to take your data and content to different web services, showing it off, connecting and sharing, but still owning control of it.

I'd much rather see more decentralized systems, but it's just not convenient for most people, and convenience will win...

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http://thehammersmithgroup.com/research.html

All the best,
Constantine

Remember when you played Scrabble and argued about a word because you didn't have a dictionary? Well, with today's in-your-pocket technology, you can settle arguments on baseball stats or find the closest pizza in seconds. This is a new world. Expectations are turned on its' head.

Did I say, MOBILE MOBILE MOBILE?

I want to build on the filtering that RWW expects (and on Andria Krewson's good comments on personal filtering)

I suspect the friend aggregators that will win in the future will be the ones that add advanced 'reverse segmentation' (or personal filtering) to their offering.

Personal filtering (or reverse segmentation) differs from personalization; Personalization in my mind refers to personalized content filtering whereas 'reverse segmentation' for the lack of a better term, is where users, not companies, will identify the segments that make sense to them.

On a basic level separating the friends from the bff (like the extremely simple 'groups' settings in tweetdeck) and on an advanced level choosing whatever implicit or explicit profile filters exist - geography, analytics like interaction levels, type of relationship, etc.. to develop the segements that you would want to follow. I would love that kind a great control over my feeds. (maybe it exists?).

Anyways.. that's my two cents.

Chris

It is a bad attempt to impose a wholly incorrect nomenclature on that which, by its nature, can not be classified in this way.

It's similar to giving version numbers to fashion, the weather, or human evolution.

Please stop it.

For the record, I am wearing underpants 3.0.

I think web 3.0 will be about three things:

Greater context - we're just seeing the beginnings of this now with real time search popping up everywhere. I would include location and mobile in this.

Data portability - People owning a defined identity online, the rise of personal portals.

Platforms everywhere - Google will lead the charge with youtube, CSE and Wave.

In terms of where the opportunity is now, i think its with multi sided platforms. http://bit.ly/rDiF. There's also a big opportunity with online video and broadband tvs.

In terms of who has the biggest opportunity, its facebook and twitter. Facebook needs to learn how to innovate again tho, and Twitter needs to manage a gradual expansion of features (and get a clue how to provide a stable service!)

The peripheral things i hope will get a showing are facilitated collective action, decentralised working and social entrepreneurship/enterprises.

Advertising industry is experiencing this change as well, traditional ATL ads and online banners and engagement won't work anymore, that's why I think the word "portal" will just equals to "content provider" soon, because online behavior changed totally! Softwares, plugins and gadgets will take over the leading position again. Advertising people need to think how to sneak into the world of "feed"...

You didn't get the sarcasm? Anyway, some people do.

Thank You