Some parts in the overall high level architecture of the next set of web applications (web3.0) fall in to place. I will describe them very shortly since I am pretty sure that noone actually reads my ideas, so in this case, I write this to use this blog in the way it will be used in the future.

If we take a weblog as a starting point (since this is the easiest starting point), many users have “tagged” the content. E.g. I can “tag” all posting I write about stuff I find interesting in magazines I have (or newspapers). Which means that if you go to the tagging page “magazines” you will find everything I write about magazines.

If I write a lot about magazines I will further divide it e.g. tag postings with “national geographic”, “pc active”, “intermediair” etc…

These will become tag pages of their own, they will include postings on things I find interesting in the issue of National Geographic I read.

This is logical right? In fact many of use have been doing this. Now.. when the amount of postings grow you will find a structure of tags which actually define the things you write about. This is a datastructure AND an ontology, but your personal ontology on a decentralized platform.

The interesting thing is that this same datastructure and ontology is used by you on several other places.

So the next step is logical and unevitable to happen.

The first place where you use the same structure is on social networks. You define yourself by your hobbies, your favorite topics, the things you read. On business networks you define the companies you worked for, the skills you have and the groups to which you belong. These “words” are in line with the structure and tags within your blog. They will merge.

The second place where you use the same structure is in your household. When you write often about a magazine you are probably buying it or have a subscription to it. Which means it has a part in your household budget. In fact all the elements of your household budget are integrated in the same structure as your weblog. The reason for this is that there are reasons why you spend money on something. These are the same reasons as why you blog on the same thing. The goals are the same in the traceability matrix.

The third place where you use the same structure is in your job. The skills you have are a tag based hierarchy. They are in your cv. These things are in your head. Some bloggers might want to make some publications or just collect some handy link in their skill area. The thing which keep you occupied 8 hours a day has the same structure behind it. Your work generates revenue. This revenue enters your budget. This budget is used to spend money on things you relate to your goals (e.g. have fun reading comics). About this comics you write and about this comic you keep your bookmarks. Furthermore on this topic you want to socialize potentially on social network or find other people writing about it.

These four areas, I expect,  will merge in the future into 1 application or a set of highly connected applications having a high impact on your household. It will in fact totally change your household in all aspects:

- internal household portal (probably microsoft based or LAN Server Linux based)
- external household portal (several blogsoftware e.g. WordPress and SAAS providers)
- company resource portal (maybe a first sign is on your companys intranet)
- distributed social network (which actively connects with other uris)

It will improve so many things in our lives that just thinking of it is dazzling, yet it is so near.

Every thing which you can tag in your life will connect with experts, tips, services, documentation, community, business, personal, budget, todolist, addressbook and any other thing you can think of. If I write about a share I bought in company X, I will instantly connect with the news feeds of the company with other shareholders,can join community feeds, get an overview of recent blogpostings, all in my personal portal having direct influence on my behaviour.

The skills I need in my job will be directly linked in a world wide network. When I want to learn a new skill, I write about it and instantly connect to the community, to expert companies, other bloggers on the topic, wikipedia page, linkdirectories, etc…

It will enable us to skip the part of having to actively go to Google and search for information we need. The push part will become much bigger. It will also automatically launch you in communities based on the things you actually do. This will improve the quality overall of that topic since progress in the field surrounding that tag gets faster because people will join projects to improve parts, discuss and have the ability to start much faster since everything to be known is there.

The next step to take is if these four areas are the only ones which will merge and the answer is no.

The reason these areas could merge is because they are coupled on a tag basis. Which means that any application or website which runs on this tag hierarchy will merge and integrate. Now the ideas area endless.

Your wiki, your mindmap, your weblog, your budget, your job areas, your personal areas, your photo album, basically everything that contains “content” about your life will be coupled with millions of new possibilities because of this integration.

This is web3.0: tag based integration of software services, software applications, software websites.

I can even predict web4.0: the integration with non software based process areas and products. Meaning: you will walk through a supermarkt and your favorite piece of food (since it is in your budget, you write about it and you have an entry in your wiki) will announce itself to you with some news about the product. That will be web4.0.

If we now make a timeline with some concepts we posted about in the past years and even we take a look at new things: decentralized social networks, rfid, home servers, personal wikis, weblog tag portals and niche portals, ontologies, web2.0 services for anything you can think of, lifehacking, it all falls in place in the overall new integrated concept.

The Awareness test 9/183K is pretty cool. Watch closely how many passes the white team makes and see if you can count them correctly.