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Expert attempts to define Web 3.0
Categories: Web 2.0
20 June 2008
The internet will eventually evolve to focus on enabling users to build their own web applications, according to one expert.
Speaking at the Sun Tech Days developer conference, Matt Thompson, senior director of open source and technology outreach for Sun Microsystems, said that Web 3.0 will see users able to get exactly what they want from the internet by constructing their own program, inquirer.net reports.
He claimed that this vision of the web could become reality sooner rather than later, citing the example of Zembly, which gives users the ability to create applications for Facebook, the iPhone and other platforms.
"The 'cloud' will become bigger and a lot more serious ... Even for existing developers, this would mean doing what they do best with the least amount of hardware and software possible," Mr Thompson remarked.
Web 3.0 has been defined in a number of different ways in the past – founder of the world wide web Sir Tim Berners-Lee recently indicated at the Linked Data Planet conference that the next stage of the internet's development could see more data become widely available to users for free across a single platform, internetnews.com reports.
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