From Web 2.0 to 3.0

August 2, 2008 · Filed Under Tech · 4 Comments 

Marc Benioff (CEO of salesforce.com) has written an article for TechCrunchIT about the evolution of Web structure. He explains what the future is bringing and what he labels Web 3.0.

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.

From what I interpreted Web 3.0 goes from websites with API or users writing the programs instead of the companies. The clearest example will have to be Facebook. Instead of the company writing programs to make the service better, the users themselves are the one building on top of it and improving it in their own ways. I have small belief that this should be considered Web 3.0, if anything I would name it Web 2.5 . It is a small step forward from user generated data, to users generating software. In any case Web 2.0 is still the leader of things and creating the biggest market. But there is no doubt that user generated software is caching on quick and it is very beneficial for companies. Saving them money and time.

Yasser

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