Do you know what Web 3.0 is?
Up until last month, Web 3.0’s future was in doubt. Wikipedians were divided about the legitimacy of the concept, and those skeptical of the term deleted the Web 3.0 entry from the online encyclopedia five separate times during 2006. After this series of near-death experiences, the article was put under protection last October.
The fervor of a few Wikipedians to kill the heir to Web 2.0 — itself a tiresome term for many these days since becoming a trademarked conference — in its cradle has ebbed since then.
In February, a deletion review for the entry concluded, with the majority of Wikipedia contributors voting to accept the legitimacy of the term.
The watershed moment may well have come last November when New York Times reporter John Markoff legitimized Web 3.0 in an article that described the term as a movement to add meaning and structure to the vast amount of information on the Web. Web 3.0 is closely associated with another trendy term, the Semantic Web.
Semantics is the study of meaning, yet as Nova Spivack, CEO and founder of stealth social search startup Radar Networks, concedes, “The Semantic Web doesn’t mean anything to a lot of people, ironically.”
The same can be said about the term Web 3.0, which has the ring of marketing fluff.
Source: Web 3.0 Survives The Wrath Of Wikipedians.
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I’d really like to see hiring companies catch-up to 2.0 before scrambling anymore brains and introducing 3.0.