Next Generation Internet | Web 3.0

Web 3.0, a phrase coined by John Markoff of the New York Times in 2006, refers to a supposed third generation of Internet-based services that collectively comprise what might be called ‘the intelligent Web’—such as those using semantic web, microformats, natural language search, data mining, machine learning, recommendation agents, and artificial intelligence technologies – which emphasize machine-facilitated understanding of information in order to provide a more productive and intuitive user experience.

CEO of Google.com, Eric Schmidt gave a speech about Web 3.0 in Korea in May 2007…

Some proposals for Web 3.0 include: 3d browsing, increased bandwidth, and artificial intelligence.

Nova Spivack defines Web 3.0 as the third decade of the Web (2010–2020) during which he suggests several major complementary technology trends will reach new levels of maturity simultaneously including:

transformation of the Web from a network of separately siloed applications and content repositories to a more seamless and interoperable whole.
ubiquitous connectivity, broadband adoption, mobile Internet access and mobile devices;
network computing, software-as-a-service business models, Web services interoperability, distributed computing, grid computing and cloud computing;
open technologies, open APIs and protocols, open data formats, open-source software platforms and open data (e.g. Creative Commons, Open Data License);
open identity, OpenID, open reputation, roaming portable identity and personal data;
the intelligent web, Semantic Web technologies such as RDF, OWL, SWRL, SPARQL, GRDDL, semantic application platforms, and statement-based datastores;
distributed databases, the “World Wide Database” (enabled by Semantic Web technologies); and
intelligent applications, natural language processing., machine learning, machine reasoning, autonomous agents

Sources:

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_3.0
2. The Third-Generation Web is Coming
3. Demonstration of Web 3.0 Cortex Intelligence