Web 3.0 : The Next Generation Web

A warm happy new year to all my audience. 2010 brings with it a lot of predictions and hopes.

• what would be the top 10 most wanted gadgets of 2010
• Will google's nexus-1 beat I-Phone
• Will twitter start making profit etc

So why not we (geekonnet team) predict the future. Being internet freaks, Many people came to us asking about the future of web2.0 or in a way web 3.0 "The next generation web".

Web 1.0: Lets go back back to 1991 when the first WWW was released to the public. The period of 1991 to 2001 (before the bursting of dotcom bubble), Web 1.0 was mainly concerned with the static html pages, guest book, forms etc. HTML extensions like " blink" and "marque " tag was introduced during the browser wars in this period of time. The biggest achievements of web1.0 were GeoCities and hotmail. GeoCities was purchased by Yahoo! for $3.57 billion in January 1999. Yahoo! closed GeoCities on October 26, 2009. There were atleast 38 million user-built pages on GeoCities before it was shut down. The GeoCities Japan version of the service is still available. Everyone knows the hotmail story, founded by the wonder boy Sabeer Bhatia. Hotmail was sold to Microsoft for 400 million dollars in 1997. At that time it had around 9 million users. Thus roughly the total number users of web 1.0 were around 45-50 million.

Web2.0: This is the current web which we are using. The bursting of dotcom bubble in 2001 was the main turning point for the internet. New technologies also played a big role in the transformation of internet from web1.0 to web2.0. Google revolutionized the search on the web. The concept of user generated content came and changed the entire web. This generation of web is mainly about the sharing of knowledge and content. Web like facebook, google have changed the entire business model of an online business. The total number of users of web2.0 are more than a billion.

Now these are the predictions for the new web form that is coming up:

Web3.0: Web3.0 will be based on the "intelligent" web applications. The main things which will be used are "Natural Language Processing (NLP)", "Machine Learning languages". Our information and datas will be linked to each other and will be organized in order to make our web intelligent. Our next generation search engine will be based on the semantic and not only on just the keywords. We will not have to surf again and again. The browser will do this for us. One can visualize the web3.0 as a global database which has every data and information. Web3.0 will be more personalized, Intelligent and mobile (anytime anywhere).

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