implemented » Web 3.0 - The Semantic, Implicit, Mobile or Distributed Web?

Description

The interest in Web 3.0 might have peaked [http://impl.emented.com/2008/04/03/web-30-peaked-in-october-2007/], as my previous study indicates. In this post, I will anyhow have a look at the various definitions of Web 3.0 that people have used in the past, and possibly find out the most plausible one. For this study I limit my coverage to high-authority blogs and news sources, so-called A-listers. I might miss some important Web 3.0 definitions this way, but the scope of the study becomes more manageable.
The Method
First I did a search for "Web 3.0" in Google Reader among my current set of blog subscriptions. This search yielded roughly 100 hits, which I then manually sifted through, following any important links in these posts. To capture additional posts, especially before 2007, I scanned the results from Google Blog Search while collecting the Web 3.0 statistics [http://impl.emented.com/2008/04/03/web-30-peaked-in-october-2007/] for my companion post. Admittedly, I have spent several weeks on these couple of posts. At least now it is soon finished.
The Semantic Web Definition
The Semantic Web is one of the more popular definitions of Web 3.0. The Semantic Web is a vision originating from web inventor Tim Berners-Lee [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee], who in a Scientific American article from 2001 writes:
The Semantic Web will bring structure to the meaningful content of Web pages, creating an environment where software agents roaming from page to page can readily carry out sophisticated tasks for users. [...]
Meaning is expressed by RDF, which encodes it in sets of triples, each triple being rather like the subject, verb and object of an elementary sentence.
In a recent blog post, Berners-Lee emphasizes that the Semantic Web is about data:
The benefit of the Semantic Web is that data may be re-used in ways unexpected by the original publisher. That is the value added.
Berners-Lee does not frequently mention Web 3.0, but in a recent talk with Paul Miller, he says:
What people are sometimes calling a Web 3.0 vision where you’ve got lots of different data out there on the Web and you’ve got lots of different applications, but they’re independent. A given application can use different data.
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