Web 3.0 - how it might work

If two different people each perform an Internet search with the same keywords using the same service, they receive different results determined by their individual profiles.

How come? This feature is one of plenty other ideas behind Web 3.0. The browser will turn into your personal assistant. It knows what you like and what you dislike and based on that it will do the searches, individual to any person.

All the predictions made about how Web 3.0 could become the next generation of the 'www'. I guess the predictions were made since Tim O'Reilly introduced the term 'Web 2.0' in 2004. The following terms appear all in relation to Web 3.0:

• Web3D - the virtual world, SecondLife - like, Avatar
• Semantic Network
• Artificial Intelligence
• Software Agent
• new internet infrastructure
• distributed computing
• web as the main media delivery system
• advanced collaboration tools
  

Every single feature is worth a single blog entry (so come back soon!). However, most of the articles I've found today were created at least 2 years ago, though 2007. There were many attempts to set up an appropriate Wikipedia article about Web 3.0 .. but to date .. none available. (web 3.0 wikipedia link)

Air cooling system in the Data Centre [Credit: The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute]

We see distributed computing already happening in the so called 'cloud computing' area, ranging from Google Docs to DropBox. I am quite an advocate of cloud computing, as I don't like carrying around plenty of binders. But distributed computing is so much more. It allows the web to become a giant brain capable of analyzing data and extrapolating new ideas.

For enterprises, Web 3.0 will be the change from a website to a webservice. The interaction between customer and business will be much more intense. The customer service will be much more systematized and automatized, but at the same time the business can focus more on the customer and provide more service and support.