Many designers and developers may disagree that the Web 2.0 craze is over, but I think it is reasonable to say it is winding down. By “winding down” I do not mean that Facebook, Twitter and other massively popular sites are going to vanish, but I do not foresee a lot more revolutionary sites emerging that are not classified under the next step (Semantic Web or Web 3.0). As a developer I feel that there will always be a piece of 2.0 in all of our future sites for quite a while, but there are a few items that will have a major impact until newer technologies make these obsolete (after the jump). I would love to hear your opinions as well so please leave some comments.

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Just when the Web 2.0 trend begins to subside, everyone starts talking about the next “age” of the internet: the Semantic Web. I’m not going to bore everyone with a description of how Web 3.0 is different that Web 2.0 and why or why not you should invest $500K in the next popular site. Rather I would like to address the new technologies that will become more popular in a very simplistic low-level language so that everyone knows what it is without losing their heads.

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