Calacanis defines Web 3.0 – It’s Mahalo
As an update, see Jason’s response to his own post here.
Jason Calacanis yesterday tried to define Web 3.0 and in a somewhat pompous move, calls it the ‘official definition’:
Web 3.0 is defined as the creation of high-quality content and services produced by gifted individuals using Web 2.0 technology as an enabling platform.
In other words, it’s, as Fred the VC points out, what he wants Mahalo to be. What he is really saying is that right now most people on the web are idiots who are producing low quality content with Web 1.0 tools…
Aslo:
Wikipedia, considered a Web 1.5 service, is experiencing the start of the Web 3.0 movement by locking pages down as they reach completion, and (at least in their German version) requiring edits to flow through trusted experts.
Are there no experts around the web right now? I thought Wikis are a Web 2.0 phenomenon – how come Wikipedia is only Web 1.5? What happened to the wisdom of crowds?
It’s useless to define these things anyway. Never believe whoever pretends to know what the web will look like in two years from now.
For more high-quality discussion by experts, see: BlueBlog, A VC, Redeye VC, Mathew Ingram