BLADAM - Entry - I’m staking a claim to Web 4.0!

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I’m staking a claim to Web 4.0!

Okay, I admit it. I missed the boat and jealously hollered that naming anything Web 2.0 is a bunch of crap. So more recently I thought, hey, that’s no problem, I’ll just glom onto Web 3.0, the semantic Web. I mean, look, I have lots of nice Jewish programmer friends, so who am I to be anti-semantic?!

But dammit, then I discovered that Nicholas Carr has already laid claim to Web 3.0! The bastard!

Never fear, dear BLADAM readers… I have the solution! I am hereby claiming as my own Web 4.0… with t-shirts and stickers, special edges, an expensive conference, and a network of blogs.

Yes, yes, I hear your skepticism already: So, Adam-you-total-killjoy-smartass, pray tell us… what exactly is Web 4.0? Well, I thought you’d never ask! Allow me to explain this scintillating new Web with crystal clarity.

Web 4.0 involves two-way individually-aggregated communal infocommerce predicated upon the six human senses! Sure, smell-o-vision may have crashed and burned, fine, maybe that tactile mouse thing never took off… but all of it combined? And tied to the Web? Let me tell you, ladies and gentlemen, this is going to be big.

SMELL the Web. FEEL the Web. TASTE the Web (actually, this part includes just LICK until 4.1, but that’s a mere troublesome tribble). Imagine a wackypedia entry with which you can SMELL Detroit! Imagine your favorite mapping service applied tactilely to ~~Pamela Anderson’s cleavage~~ academically enlightening geodesic dome models… collaboratively, in real time!

But I’m not stopping there. I’m also trademarking the following:
- Television 4.0 (2.0 clicked with the remote)
- Medicine 4.0 (Viagra lifted it up to 2.0)
- Philosophy 4.0 (Exiting the cave was 2.0)
- Air travel 4.0 (Southwest is 2.0!)
- The Law 4.0 (The McDonald’s Coffee heated things up to 2.0)

and

...wait a minute? What’s that you say? We never really did refer to any of these things as 2.0? No one has ever blathered on about whether Jet Blue qualifies as part of Air travel 2.0? Or whether a doctor is adhering to Medicine 2.0 principles? (maybe if he has—snort—well-rounded edges and listens to his patients?). Hmm… how about “My new Sony is so Television 2.0!” No? It just sounds silly and goofily arbitrary?

No matter! If my 4.0 schwag is really hip and if I can get enough bloggers to BlogOn!(tm), we can make this a true movement with all 0.0000037% of the world’s citizens who are also nomenclature-obsessed-geeks. Our numbers may be small, but we’re powerful… just look at our Alexa graph, babeeee! You dare compete with that?

- Blathered by Adam on Sunday, November 12, 2006 at 11:29 [ Permalink | Trackback ]
- Filed under Geekery • Grab bag • Wackiness
- Commented on by 13 folks so far. Scroll down and see for yourself (and join in the conversation!)

Comment from Haochi Web Pi [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	You are a little bit late. Philipp Lenssen has already claimed it. “Others still call these kind of blogs autrasplogs (a horrible Web 4.0 acronym, if I may say so, for auto translated spam blogs), because they add multiple versions of a page to search results of Google, Yahoo and JeevesIsBack.” - Posted on Sunday, November 12, 2006 at 16:41 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from member Adam San Francisco [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	Curses! Foiled again :-( I guess there’s always Web 5.0, right? AND… Web40.info is still available :D - Posted on Sunday, November 12, 2006 at 16:46 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from member Mladen [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	- Philosophy 4.0 (Exiting the cave was 2.0) I wonder what was Philosophy 3.0? Inventing the wheel? - Posted on Monday, November 13, 2006 at 8:55 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from joel [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	I also beat you on Web 4.0 a couple months ago http://hydeparkassociates.com/blog/?p=290 and went ahead with Web 5.0 as well. We need one of those things they have in Baskin Robbins where you pull a paper number out of the machine indicating your place in line. - Posted on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at 11:02 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from MaryMaryQuiteContrary [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	You are hilarious! You made me laugh out loud. mary - Posted on Thursday, November 16, 2006 at 12:11 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from SEO Bozo Box [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	Oooh no, you will not have that keyword Adam because it is mine, all mine!!! ;-0 - Posted on Thursday, November 16, 2006 at 21:05 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from Dave Walker Sun UK [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	Never mind “<entity> <foo>.0”, I reckon the concepts to get dibs and definitions on are OSI layers 8, 9, 10 etc .Let’s start: 8 = business function, 9 = liability… - Posted on Friday, November 17, 2006 at 0:58 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from neon [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	I want to register myself with some Big Boobs 4 - Posted on Friday, November 17, 2006 at 1:34 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from JohnWeb MN [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	How about Web3D, add another dimension? - Posted on Friday, November 17, 2006 at 2:34 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from Joe Duck Oregon [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	Adam - nice to finally meet you in person here at Pubcon. Even the aging Web 2.0 seems conspicuously absent here, which is the big thing I’m taking away from the conference. There’s a disconnect between the edgy development I’ve been seeing at, e.g., Mashup Camps and what many here are up to. This, of course, is going to make it all 3x as interesting! I claim Web 0/0 = an undefined sort of infinity, and thus cover all the bases. - Posted on Friday, November 17, 2006 at 9:47 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from rekz San Francisco, CA [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	Adam—I saw this all in a movie—it’s called the Matrix. You can get an idea of it by watching people play Playstation 3 for hours. Have you considered what will happen when the simulation is more fun than the real? Have you considered that you may already be in something similar? Why waste all this time checking out of reality, when the reality we are already checked INTO is so awesome? I look out my window and I can’t even see green. Not sure if that means I’d rather see simulations of green, or if I’d like to see the simulacra of beauty knocked down? How’s THAT for a rant? PEACE—the war must end! rekzkarz in SF http://rekzkarz.com - Posted on Friday, December 1, 2006 at 15:07 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from jamey Sun [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	Nice rant. In fact, you inspired a little one of my own. - Posted on Friday, December 15, 2006 at 10:54 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from James Business for sale [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	No one wants to learn your superb ideas for Web 3. 0, 4. 0, or 99. 0 (and before you seek, wear’t still believe about some sort of stealth versioning with a Web 2. 0 Service Pack 1 or Web 2. 0 Enterprise Edition. The versioning craziness must halt. No need of web 5.0 - Posted on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at 22:49 [ Permalink to this comment ]

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