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Web 2.0 has not fully understood by a lot people in the world yet while Silicon Valley seemed to rap it up and move on to the Web 3.0 age...
What's Web 3.0?
Let us look at what Wikipedia says about it.

Web 3.0 is a term that is used to describe various evolution of Web usage and interaction along several separate paths. These include transforming the Web into a database, a move towards making content accessible by multiple non-browser applications, the leveraging of artificial intelligence technologies, the Semantic web, the Geospatial Web, or the 3D web.

Has the Web 2.0 wave arrived yet? or has it passed already? There are still a lot of questions to ask about the existing Web 2.0 technologies. There are also a lot to ponder about.

But innovation shall not stop its journey. In fact, it never did in the Silicon Valley. Now, following the Web 2.0 naming trend, 3.0 stuff are discussed and people started imagining what the Web 3.0 world is like in 2030. that's 20 years down the road. Will it go really that far? I guess it might come even earlier... Innovators, technologists and geeks are gathered in Silicon Valley and they have enough resources and brain power to work on their dreams. Isn't that cool? Let us really start to think about how the Web will be changed in 20 years.

In this article, Web 3.0 and beyond: the next 20 years of the internet, the author Jonathan Richards talked about what the Web 3.0 feelings are like and what you can sort of expect in the third phase of the evolution of Internet and the World Wild Web - the smarter and more intelligent experience on the Internet.

Here is my view. In the societal evolution, we have already stepped into this information era where you can see knowledge based industries started driving the economy significantly. For example, cars are no longer some simple transportation but equipped with all kinds of technologies. Cars have already become an information carrier for the drivers and for other people.

So you may wonder now, what does the Web 3.0 do with the societal evolution? In my opinion, the Internet, resembling a society, is undergoing its various stages of evolution. The birth of the Internet provided the vast virtual environment just like the birth of the earth-our only living environment. The living organisms on the Internet are the pieces of information. Whereas, the concept of Web 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 are the various stages of the Internet involved its residents - information.

The success of Web 1.0 can be benchmarked as the success of Amazon and eBay. They successfully built the virtual market place for suppliers, resellers and buyers in the commerce online, where the e-commerce was born. The information on the Internet can be exchanged and traded in an organized manner. The economy was sort of formed on the Internet. Exchange and trade took place helped the Internet grow and expand its users. The users are more like the land on the earth. As more and more users online, the better we know the land on the earth. On the Internet, the more users there, the more the Internet knows its land and then evolution will continue in a faster pace.

With the successful built of the virtual market place on the internet, the first stage also involved the generation of information on the Web. As more and more information available online, the second stage naturally came in to organize and filter the information. Yahoo, Google and many other Internet company participate in this stage of evolution. However, Web 2.0 was not defined as this stage coming to the end of it, with the emerging of the social media, like Digg, Meebo, Facebook and MySpace. These branded Web 2.0 companies are taking the role of completing the second stage with better information distribution and filtration. As one of the social structure was added to the Internet just like the real world. Information is overloading; system is getting more complex; structures are getting more complicated. Seemingly, more importantly, the participation of the users, as the utilization of the land, became more and more significant in contributing to the environment - the Internet. Right now, what we are experiencing everyday is the changes in the late Web 2.0 stage. It seems that everyday the Internet looks different than the day before. Of course, at this time, users started to welcome and get ready to embrace the advent of the next stage - the Web 3.0 era. Before entering the 3.0 world, the information are better organized and good distribution and filtration are created;however, there is one fundamental issue was still causing pain to the users- that is the information overloading. The overloading has also changed in term of order of magnitude. It's in the Tera-byte age. I think that's what the 3.0 is offering. Information started to gain intelligence and understand what the user is looking for, and then feedback to the user with relevant result. In other words, it is the transformation into the semantic time.
More interactions happen between the information and the users (the organisms and the lands), to ultimately form the unbeatable ecosystem.

- David