[smoseley]

There's a humor thread about Web 3.0 running around. While some of you think it's humorous, I believe there have been definitive versions of the web. The first was HTML-based. The second came with the introduction of XML and CSS, which have significantly changed the way the web works.

IMO, Web 3.0 will be a data-based, semantic Web, using RDF and SPARQL to transform the web into a truly interlinked universal resource rather than an array of disparate applications. See World Wide Web Consortium homepage - SPARQL was just formally approved last week. More about semantic web activity here: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

[sufined]

i think its too early web 2.0 has to stay for some time

[Heka1]

There really is no Web 2.0 or web 3.0. it is just a way to talk about the "NEW" things (software) available.

The web is just evolving, it is still a infant. Think about clothing, you don't call clothing from 4000 years ago clothing 1.0 and clothing today 4000.0 or even 2.0 do you? clothing has came a LONG way in that time frame and still has the same name, CLOTHING. clothing does however have different categories for styles which is what the web does and should be used.

[illvibe]

I think you're a little off. Web 2.0 is just a buzz-term used to describe a new way of using the web rather than any technical developments.

[Heka1]

I would agree, I put the software in the brackets to include it, but not limit to that subject. I covered the NEW things such as how the web is used or rounded corners. It is only a buzz term like you said that is just overly used.