Personally, I’m waiting for Web 10.0 which will beam holographic images and data directly into my brain and anticipate what I’m doing next week so I can watch it interactively in Twelfth Life (Second Life’s eventual successor where full-size androids do what I would be doing if I could find a reason to get off the couch).

Web 3.0: When Web Sites Become Web Services

Today’s Web has terabytes of information available to humans, but hidden from computers. It is a paradox that information is stuck inside HTML pages, formatted in esoteric ways that are difficult for machines to process. The so called Web 3.0, which is likely to be a pre-cursor of the real semantic web, is going to change this. What we mean by ‘Web 3.0’ is that major web sites are going to be transformed into web services – and will effectively expose their information to the world.

The transformation will happen in one of two ways. Some web sites will follow the example of Amazon, del.icio.us and Flickr and will offer their information via a REST API. Others will try to keep their information proprietary, but it will be opened via mashups created using services like Dapper, Teqlo and Yahoo! Pipes. The net effect will be that unstructured information will give way to structured information – paving the road to more intelligent computing. In this post we will look at how this important transformation is taking place already and how it is likely to evolve.

We may have a way to go on this. Yahoo is testing their beta of their My Yahoo page which I use as my home page. So I clicked on the button to the beta this morning and this is what I found in the map & driving directions box.