ReadWriteWeb asks: Web 3.0: Is it About Personalization? in reaction to an article in the Guardian: Web 3.0 is all about rank and recommendation. There are a lot of pithy phrases being thrown about such as that from Robert O’Brien saying: ”Web 1.0: Centralized Them. Web 2.0: Distributed Us. Web 3.0: Decentralized Me” or my personal favorite: Web 3.0 = (4C + P +VS) from Srmana Mitra (although, as a mathematician, I don’t understand the need for the parenthesis). I think all of this is just trying to make the case that Web 3.0 = Semantic Web. First, this whole versioning of the Web is getting ridiculous (although I will claim copyright of version 3.002a). I do think we are evolving towards far more of a “me-centric” information universe that is imbued within the Data Portability movement. I feel like something new this way comes. Something where people will start to take much more control of their information and to use that control to their greater benefit. It’s going to be more social than technical but I do think some new paradigm is going to emerge to support this. I think that paradigm is going to be about people learning how to use technology more and more rather than the technology learning more and more about people.
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