Social Web 3.0

“Web 3.0,” you ask, “Aren't we just starting Web 2.0?”
Honestly, I think it's a bad idea to try to version the internet, but if people are going to call the web version 2.0, then I'm naturally going to push the envelope.

The problem with trying to label the web with a version is it's all too often changing. I began creating for the web all the way back in 1997, and I can tell you now that we should be a whole lot farther than 2.0. The web has shifted from Tim Berners-Lee's idea to share scientific documents, to every one creating their own “Under Construction” website—I had one too—to a legitimate content source and so on.

All of this is to illustrate a simple point: The world is changing fast, and the web is changing faster. Today's social web is soon going to be yesterdays social web, so where is all this heading? What influence will today's social applications have on tomorrow's? What lessons are we going to learn from today's social web?

Let's figure it out.