Web 2.0 is a buzz term that caught on and is now so overused I want to smack everyone who says it.  However, that’s all poised to change in the future, when the new buzzword that makes me want to smack people becomes Web 3.0.  “What is Web 3.0?” you ask?  Well I’m quite glad you inquired, because I just so happen to have a wonderfully nerdy explanation right here.

From Gimmie the Scoop:

Web 3.0 is frequently referred to as an environment consisting of intelligent web-based semantic applications and desktops, where the web is a database of information published via reusable formats such as XML, RDF, ICDL and other micro formats. By some, it is perceived as part of digital media contribution to the evolutionary path to artificial intelligence that can provide access to information driven by laws of mathematical probability previously calculated by Shannon’s Laws and Bayes’ Theorem. Web3.0 may bring the realization of the Semantic Web, where meaning can be extracted from data representations such as hypertext and utility driven by meaning.

Well that explains it!

I recommend hitting the whole article, as it really tries valiantly to explain to you the future of the web.  You could literally spend days on Wikipedia and not peel back the layers on this bad boy, but it’s still fun to spend time on the conjecture.