Amit Agarwal, founder of the excellent tech blog digital inspiration, has pulled together a half-dozen slide presentations attempting to explain in clear language the concepts, complexities and potential of Web 3.0.

In his introduction, Agarwal lays out the fundamental differences between the three iterations of the World Wide Web:

Web 1.0 – That Geocities & Hotmail era was all about read-only content and static HTML websites. People preferred navigating the web through link directories of Yahoo! and dmoz.

Web 2.0 – This is about user-generated content and the read-write web. People are consuming as well as contributing information through blogs or sites like Flickr, YouTube, Digg, etc. The line dividing a consumer and content publisher is increasingly getting blurred in the Web 2.0 era.

Web 3.0 – This will be about semantic web (or the meaning of data), personalization (e.g. iGoogle), intelligent search and behavioral advertising among other things.

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