A look to the future (Web 3.0), by looking at the past

I found a comparison of Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0, via my Twine newsletter (Twine, incidentally, has improved tremendously since July of ‘08). While newspapers (and news organizations) play ‘catch-up’ on the web, someone needs to prepare for the future: for Web 3.0.

I’m not going to pretend that I’m an expert on Web 3.0, or a futurist, but I can tell when something feels like it’s about to implode. A quick scan of the interwebz provides me with a pretty clear indication of what is building up and about to happen in the digital world.

The new rallying cry of Web 3.0 is that anyone can innovate, anywhere. Code is written, collaborated on, debugged, tested, deployed, and run in the cloud. When innovation is untethered from the time and capital constraints of infrastructure, it can truly flourish.

Everything I read, iterates how critical data sets are going to be: And of that, how it’ll be used to tell a story or provide context to stories. The use of ‘linked data‘ at the most basic level, is linking stories to outside stories and sources.

One things for news organizations that are holding back content? Look at the bottom of the table. If you’re going to prepare for Web 3.0 … open up the archives and allow equal and open access to content.

“Return of the JEDI (FORCE emerges and facilitates decentralization from “Identity” all the way to “Open Data Access” and “Negotiable Descriptive Data Representation”)”

Help educate me, correct me where I’m wrong or add on to the points that are right.