Todd Mundt

You should watch these videos. Certainly, there’s some “cheese” here, but if you forget about the devices and think about the concept, you’ll see where Web 3.0 is likely to take us.

Aurora (Part 1) from Adaptive Path on Vimeo.

Web 1.0 was about web pages; Web 2.0 was, among other things, about the rise of web services; and what you can here are potentially the next few steps for the browser, from a piece of software that displays pages, to an environment where sites you’ve visited, clippings you’ve accumulated, pieces of data you’re monitoring, auctions you’re following, the people you chat with, the credit card you use to buy stuff, exist as objects, which you can manipulate easily, and which can be recognized and understood across sites as you use them.

You’re seeing one view of something people have been talking about for awhile now - the power of metadata to extract information from static web pages and deliver it in a variety of forms, as needed. We can already do this, with RSS, with API’s, etc., but these are still islands in the sea of data. The next steps will be to turn these islands into continents of data, and then to tie that data together in meaningful ways.

Yes, your web site becomes a lot less important than the data you’re moving through it and transmitting through RSS and API’s to other users and services, but this is already happening and has been happening for some time and it’s the tip of the iceberg. Your data becomes more valuable than ever, to users and other services, and also to you.

There are four videos; you can watch them all, but the first one will give you enough information to see the potential of this possible future.