John D. Sutter
CNN.com’s SciTechBlog:

The tech community, always moving toward the newest thing, has come up with a fresh term for the world to chew on: Web 3.0.

The idea, which vaguely refers to a third era of Internet technology, is nascent enough that many discussions about it seem to center on its definition.

Nova Spivack, Twine’s founder, said in an interview last week that Web 3.0 is more chronological and simple than some would make it out to be. It just means we’re in the third decade of the Internet, which technically began in March, he said.

“We’re in Web 3.0 now. It happened,” he said.

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