Web Three Dot Oh

Over the last week we have been inundated with news about Web 3.0. This was sparked by a New York Times article claiming the goal is to “add a layer of meaning on top of the existing Web that would make it less of a catalog and more of a guide…”.

Apparently this is going to be called Web 3.0. After the article the blogosphere (I hate that term) blew up with everyone’s anticipation of Web 3.0 and its meaning. I wrote about this in March 2006. And, I created the following diagram:

I’ve recently decided to ignore these monikers. I used to want to be a Web 2.0 company and enjoy success in a burgeoning bubble.

Now I’ve grown sick of “Web 2.0″, “Bubble”, “Built to flip”, etc. I don’t want to read about it. I don’t want to think about it. I don’t want to try to be that. It’s a fad that will die. The media is perpetuating these problems, much like they did six/seven years ago. The blogosphere has become diseased with it. Ninety percent of the startups coming out are adding little to no value to the web or its users but you wouldn’t know that when people like Michael Arrington of Techcrunch write about anything they can get their hands on.

I want to add value to the web. Don’t you think its about time to create things to better the web and community rather than creating to be apart of something – to be included in a phantom term that will mean nothing in two years? That’s my plan. What’s yours?

Tags: Technology, Web, Business, Internet, Bubble

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