Tuesday 26. of August 2008
The software industry, especially web development, is buzzing with WEB 3.0. It is being said that it is another internet revolution, which will introduce new web development standards and deliver a new generation of business applications. Web 3.0 is the beginning of the third-generation of internet-based services. Is Web 3.0 the future of web development? Will it be able to make waves in web development?
TechCrunchIT blog has published a post, Welcome to Web 3.0: Now Your Other Computer is a Data Center by Marc Benioff, which gives a detailed overview of Web 3.0. Let’s see how Marc Benioff sees the future of Web 3.0.
Web 3.0: Anyone Can Innovate Web 3.0 changes all of this by completely disrupting the technology and economics of the traditional software industry. The new rallying cry of Web 3.0 is that anyone can innovate, anywhere. Code is written, collaborated on, debugged, tested, deployed, and run in the cloud. When innovation is untethered from the time and capital constraints of infrastructure, it can truly flourish.
For businesses, Web 3.0 means that SaaS apps can be developed, deployed, and evolved far more quickly and cost-effectively than traditional software of the client-server era. The dramatic reset in economics should help CIOs finally break through the innovation backlog created by the cost and complexity of maintaining client-server apps.
For developers, Web 3.0 means that all they need to create their dream app is an idea, a browser, some Red Bull, and a few Hot Pockets. Because every developer around the world can access the same powerful cloud infrastructures, Web 3.0 is a force for global economic empowerment.
For ISVs, Web 3.0 means that they can spend more time focusing on the core value they want to offer to customers, not the infrastructure to support it. Because code lives in the cloud, global talent pools can contribute to it. Because it runs in the cloud, a truly global market can subscribe to it as a service.
In our view, the move from mainframes to client server was painful for IBM and DEC and created massive wealth for a broad generation of new companies like Microsoft, Oracle, PeopleSoft, and SAP. Web 3.0 threatens Microsoft’s .net, BEA, and WebSphere. And while I expect companies such as Amazon.com, Facebook, Google, and salesforce.com to do well, I think that even more wealth and further innovation will be created by a new, more broadly distributed class of companies and entrepreneurs that leverage the power of Web 3.0. |
Marc Benioff is very hopeful about the future of Web 3.0 and believes that it is a powerful, feature-enriched paradigm which will be beneficial for all. He believes that with Web 3.0, every developer would be able to claim that “my other computer is a data center.” We cannot overlook the other side of the story because there is also an unsettling side to Web 3.0.
Rough Type blog in the post, Welcome Web 3.0!, points out it. The post says:
But there's also a creepy side to 3.0, which Markoff only hints at. While it will be easy for you to mine meaning about vacations and other stuff, it will also be easy for others to mine meaning about you. In fact, Web 3.0 promises to give marketers, among others, an uncanny ability to identify, understand and manipulate us - without our knowledge or awareness.
Markoff quotes artificial-intelligence-promoter Danny Hillis, who calls Web 3.0 technologies "spooky." |
Web 3.0 technologies are evolving and establishing themselves as authentic web development technologies. A lot of research is underway in Web 3.0 domain. We hope that the new generation, Web 3.0, will introduce some revolutionary web development strategies, which will be remembered as the beginning of a new era in business applications development!
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