Web 3.0

proper noun

The predicted third generation of the World Wide Web, usually conjectured to include semantic tagging of content and decentralized protocols.

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Web3 · alternative web3

  1. InternetneologismThe predicted third generation of the World Wide Web, usually conjectured to include semantic tagging of content and decentralized protocols.

    Stepping back to the Web topics, what are your thoughts on Web 3.0, the Semantic Web?

    2008, Bradley L. Jones, Web 2.0 Heroes: Interviews with 20 Web 2.0 Influencers, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN
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    Web 3.0 does not yet exist, but it shines forth in online cooperation. […] Web 3.0 technologies like wikis are not only communicative, but also cooperative.

    2007, Christian Fuchs, Internet and Society: Social Theory in the Information Age, Routledge, →ISBN, page 126

    Even though Web 2.0 has not been fully implemented, there are talks of Web 3.0 and what the future may hold. Many predict it will be the Semantic Web where users will be able to request information rather than have to search for it.

    2008, P. Candace Deans, Social Software and Web 2.0 Technology Trends, →ISBN, page 55

    Some people already think about what is happening with the Web 3.0, the semantic web, the Internet of things, for instance.

    2009, Sigrid Baringhorst, Political Campaigning on the Web

    Web 3.0 refers to the third stage in the evolution of the Web that now has significant extension in the types of data, people, and interactions, along with heterogeneity and scale.

    2013, Amit Sheth, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Semantics Empowered Web 3.0 […] , Morgan & Claypool Publishers, →ISBN, page 5

    As the year unfolds, pay attention to the people who are talking about a new, decentralised internet – AKA Web 3.0 – and the possibility of data being returned to the control of the people who generate it.

    2019 January 7, John Harris, “Together we can thwart the big-tech data grab. Here’s how”, in The Guardian

Origin

Translations

Chinese Cantonese Web 3.0 (wep¹ saam¹ dim² ling⁴)
  • Web 3.0 (wep¹ saam¹ dim² ling⁴)third generation of the WWW
Chinese Mandarin Web 3.0 (Web sān diǎn líng)
  • Web 3.0 (Web sān diǎn líng)third generation of the WWW
Finnish Web 3.0
  • Web 3.0third generation of the WWW
German Web 3.0
  • Web 3.0third generation of the WWW
Polish Web 3.0
  • Web 3.0third generation of the WWW
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