Building Web 3.0
Web3.0 Business Model
A quick search for web3.0 business models doesn't yield much. Everyone is too focused on the user experience. But I don't see charging for content as being viable. (The micro finance model never got anywhere.) "Ads by Google"also doesn't pay well for niche markets. I think the real money is going to be in software, which is very different from how web2.0 works.
Now if you look at web2.0, you find sites which provide a service using their custom software. That software is key to their business model and simply not available at any price. And it is capital intensive, as it requires a small server farm to host even a moderately popular service. Web3.0 is very different.
Web3.0 is all about hosting a service from behind a nat, with socket connections to server hubs. Or joining a JXTA community which provides a collective service. And for it to be really part of the web (private networks don't live long), those server hubs and JXTA communities still need to be accessible via a web server. Indexing by Google is key! Of course, on the path to maturity we will need standards for all these services to interoperate as well.
Web3.0 then can be characterized as having many more, smaller servers. And a lot of those new servers will be offering mashups from other servers, micro blogging being the starting point. All of this will create a huge market for software. Content will still be king, but information fusion will be the rave. The software business will be all about fad and fashion, but on a huge scale.
So, what will a web3.0 server look like? We are going to need a platform that makes it easy for users to compose services and combine content from a range of sources. And that is exactly what the AgileWiki project is all about.
Now if you look at web2.0, you find sites which provide a service using their custom software. That software is key to their business model and simply not available at any price. And it is capital intensive, as it requires a small server farm to host even a moderately popular service. Web3.0 is very different.
Web3.0 is all about hosting a service from behind a nat, with socket connections to server hubs. Or joining a JXTA community which provides a collective service. And for it to be really part of the web (private networks don't live long), those server hubs and JXTA communities still need to be accessible via a web server. Indexing by Google is key! Of course, on the path to maturity we will need standards for all these services to interoperate as well.
Web3.0 then can be characterized as having many more, smaller servers. And a lot of those new servers will be offering mashups from other servers, micro blogging being the starting point. All of this will create a huge market for software. Content will still be king, but information fusion will be the rave. The software business will be all about fad and fashion, but on a huge scale.
So, what will a web3.0 server look like? We are going to need a platform that makes it easy for users to compose services and combine content from a range of sources. And that is exactly what the AgileWiki project is all about.
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