Becky, good post. I think a part of web 3.0 will include more robust collaborative tools. Current collaborative tools are not easy to use and are not real time. For instance, last evening I was on a phone call with a person from my office and a person in Denver talking about design concepts for our SharePoint implementation. We were coming to the conclusion that we did not completely love any of the designs. While the phone call was taking place I started mocking up something on my computer, but I wanted to get quick input from the other two callers while giving them real time access tot he document and allowing them to edit it. You may say that Live Meeting could solve this, but Live Meeting is a thick application and is not easy to use in my opinion. I think web 3.0 will offer this type of simultaneous interaction on the web. Check out http://www.go2web20.net/ and check out the amazing things that people are building on the web. I think there are some that are crosing into the web 3.0 space.

I think it's funny that someone thinks tech generations are a whole decade long. I think that software lifecycle comes into play in a big way (three-year cycle for Microsoft Office) and I think that innovators aren't even using "versions" to describe themselves anymore. It's not Web 3.0, it's more like #webLOLz, but it's cute how CNN thinks they're keeping up. :)

Daniel Suarez's book "Daemon" takes an interesting approach that the "next generation" of the web is one where the web itself begins to reach out and control the real world as an artificial intelligence. If you've seen any of the information on Bill Gates' home, you get a feel for what this means. I'm seeing this happen more and more often, and it makes me yearn for a '56 Chevy pickup.

I have read, but am not convinced, that web 3.0 will be moving closer to adaptive systems that use artifical intelligence to make user applications more integrated.  There will have to be a lot of give and take for this to happen...for example, the concept of "identity" will have to be defined.  You can't adapt if you don't have a persistent and shared identity across systems and networks.  That will, of course, open up issues with privacy and traceability.  Eventually that barrier will be broken by a new generation of users and developers, but for us in the post-911 world, the thoughts of anonymous systems tracking, profiling and passing around data from our web habits is a bit scary.