In the very near future we may face a turning point, the birth of Web 3.0.
Many people speculate what Web 3.0 could be like. Though, some of these speculations are very interesting for mobile developers.


To start from the very beginning, from the burst of the dot com bubble in the fall of 2001. Many people believed that the web was overhyped. But it wasn't the end of the web. Far from it infact. New and exciting sites and applications started poping up and it were the good web solutions that showed their strenght by surviving and thriving while the pretenders dissapeared.
In the first conferences (source from o'Reilly), Web 2.0 was described as "the web as a platform" and later Web 2.0 meant something about democracy. When speaking of Web 2.0 today we think of Ajax, RSS, user generated content and democracy like blogs and wiki and mashups.


Some speculations for web 3.0 suggest that the web will be everywhere on various devices, anytime, anywhere. Crucial applications such as mobile applications and intuitiveness in usage where a mobile powered web will play a big part in.


imagin walking in a store with your phone and you automatically switch over to the in-house wifi. Now you are online located in the store and browsing the web deliverd catalog and if you want to find a product in a certain department, your phone shows you a map of the store.


Or the search engine of the future where your search results are based on the radius of your location.


Social networking may change drastically aswell. Imagine in the near future where you take out your phone and see several people online near you, you don't have to talk to them yet, you can first see their profile and their hobbies and the other way around. All you have to do is walk to that person and start a conversation.


Seems to me, It's only a matter of time...