Boris has a wonderful post at The Next Web about Web 3.0 for dummies.  He has posted a super slideshow done by Freek Bijl that simplifies the concept of web 3.0 in an exceptionally clear manner. I really appreciated his finding this and putting it up in English.

I have been thinking about where the web is heading for the last few months.  Social networking has naturally evolved.  There is hardly any website now that doesn’t try and encourage ‘membership’ and communal contribution of opinions in the very least.

The most striking trend that I have remarked though, is the ‘opening’ of web sites.  Now I think it’s imporatant to make a distinction before I continue on.  Wikipedia, and Mahalo for example are ‘people powered’, harnessing the contributions of the masses to drive their content.  The new trend I am talking about is previously established sites like Google Map  allowing users to add/modify the existing databases.  This is a huge step in the direction of user driven content and it flows directly from social networking principals.

The next step will be for the re-thinking of what is proprietary data, and how can we open up the huge data banks of private corporations thereby enriching existing verticals for the benefit of users/consumers at large.