LexArrow - it’s in your mind…

Altough Web 2.0 is far from over, the shaping of Web 3.0 has already begun and I list below some of the ideas that I have found :

1. Easier, cheaper, and more pervasive.

2. Always on, everywhere. Wether we like it or not, we will be always connected.

3. Controlling our data. In the next gen, we’ll have developed all kinds of systems to wrap our personal data with various types of protection. Some will be shared widely, some narrowly, some not at all. And new systems of reputation and ranking should help us figure out which data sources to take seriously and which to shun.

4. Web 3.0 gives people the tools to craft their own tools, their own software, etc, rather than just uploading stuff to other people’s software. It will be YOURTube, YOURSpace, YOURFlickr.

5. The web will be programmable. Programmable for everybody! (not in the classic way).

6. Web 3.0 has to be every device connected to the internet and seamlessly to itself. Video streamed from a computer to a TV, picture frames that pulls photos from my online flickr account, mirrors that can show RSS feeds in the corner.

7. We should have the web behaving more like a single application with many features then an OS (Operating System eg. Linux, MacOS, Windows, Solaris) with many apps.

8. It will be a 3D space that will unveil new methods of interaction.

I think that an essential element has been overlooked: the hardware, its development and effects on Web 3.0 shaping. I’ll give you a video example of the new “keyboard” :

For further reading please consult BusinesWeek blogspotting and Web2.0Journal