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Re: Web 3.0 Nonsense

James — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 20:42:30 -0000

Couldn't agree more. The web is moving full-speed in the direction of community, sharing and collaborative building. Labeling versions is simply stupid. It's a natural evolution and maturing of the medium.

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fredwilson — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:11:01 -0000

Tim

Thanks for your help in getting our collective mojo back I will be always grateful to you and john for doing that

Fred

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Ben — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 11:44:40 -0000

Maybe we should just take the Microsoft route and start calling it Web 2004 this year ?

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Charlie Crystle — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:20:59 -0000

Jason--

Yawn.

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Scott Yates — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:38:53 -0000

Happy to license it to you. Only 99 cents per use!

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ben s — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 06:37:30 -0000

ugh.. i don't like it either.. why does he need to create new "buckets" for everything, and the sort of self-serving nature of it makes me need a bar of web 2.0 soap to wash off

Re: Web 3.0 Nonsense

vruz — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 01:01:38 -0000

Given enough people believing it (and funding it) any commentary will pass as truth... even your definition of web 2.0, and this is still true for Jason's too.

The problem is, I just don't think too many people can be fooled twice with the same thing :-)

Re: Web 3.0 Nonsense

Tim O'Reilly — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:38:34 -0000

FWIW, I don't like the term "Web 2.0" much either and I'm the one who made it stick! But for a bit of context, remember what it's origin was: we wanted to do a conference that said "the web is back" after the dot com bust, and everyone thinking the web is over. That's the 2.0 part.

Then in explaining what made 2.0 "different," I spent a lot of time articulating what made some sites survive the bust, and what I saw in the ones that were up and coming.

So my question about Web 3.0 is simple: what's going to make us need a 3.0 term? Will it be after the next bust? Meanwhile, there are lots of trends that are going to converge to make a significant revolution. But it's not more of the same stuff that's already driving Web 2.0.

The kind of stuff Jason is talking about is at best, Web 2.0.1 if it were to succeed to its fullest. It's just not anywhere near a revolution.

Re: Web 3.0 Nonsense

vruz — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:48:30 -0000

if he's leading you, you're in serious trouble Dan, sorry.

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vruz — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:47:54 -0000

I'm pretty sure you'll get the benefit of $2K web 3.0 conferences in no time !!

don't blink !

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vruz — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:46:50 -0000

backwards..... as in .... nowhere ?

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vruz — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:45:13 -0000

unauthorised ?

should we licence web 3.0 from you, Jason ?

if this is web 3.0 I can't wait until you come up with 4.0 !

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fredwilson — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:44:01 -0000

My crackberry is now my smackberry

Commenting via mobile email is something I've wanted for years

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Giordano — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 19:55:00 -0000

Off-topic, just wanted to say that I really like the new, improved, A VC, with Fred participating in the comments :)

It adds a layer to the conversation

Cheers,
Giordano

Re: Web 3.0 Nonsense

markslater — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 19:17:37 -0000

your birthday fred? mine today too! best wishes.

I recall at least 8 years ago several start ups attempting to map the cognitive processes of the brain. How the brain processes information or several loosely related ways to refer to a faculty for the human-like processing of information, applying knowledge and changing preferences (quote from wikipedia).

My simple understanding of this is getting the web to act, and think more like we do - thus web going social, and so on.

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Eric Olson — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:06:42 -0000

Agreed. These are all natural evolutions of the web. They really don't need to be defined with a trademark.

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David — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:53:03 -0000

Thank you Fred. If you can't define something clearly - it's usually a sign of a lack of substance!

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Eric — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:59:50 -0000

I couldn't agree more

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dan — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:32:15 -0000

Frankly I find his statement elitist and irresponsible, a leader in web 2.0 should be more realistic than he has come across on this one. If anything it shows just how far removed he is from everyone else.

Re: Web 3.0 Nonsense

fredwilson — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:23:09 -0000

That's a distinct possibility which I mused about several weeks ago in my 'web in for a tough time?' post

Fred

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fredwilson — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:23:08 -0000

that's nice you to day howard ;)

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fredwilson — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:23:08 -0000

Web 2.0 is soap.

That's a good one

I am going to use it

Fred

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fredwilson — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:23:07 -0000

Great points. Multiple interfaces/devices is a big trend

I think the semantic web is the intelligent web, but that's semantics for you!!

Fred

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Sal — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:37:30 -0000

Sounds like web 3.0 is coming soon..Woot!

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andrew — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:44:38 -0000

web 3.0 will not occur until after we go through a period when all these crap companies go IPO and the public gets hurt and the market dips.