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WSJ's D Conference Fumbles Transition to Web 3.0

Source: MediaShift

May 28, 2009

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CARLSBAD, CALIF. -- The organizers of the tony, high-priced tech conference known as D All Things Digital, included a manifesto of sorts in the program guide titled "Welcome to Web 3.0." In that treatise, organizers Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher define Web 3.0 as "the real arrival, after years of false predictions, of the thin client, running clean, simple software, against cloud-based data and services. The poster children for this new era have been the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch..."

While many people define Web 3.0 as part of the semantic web where machines will talk to machines and the dream of intelligent agents will come true, the D folks are more inclined to consider the handheld computer/smartphone revolution to be the center of Web 3.0. Why? "We are declaring the Web 2.0 era over, because, well, when you run conferences and websites, you can say stuff like that," they wrote.

In years past, the D conference was known for charging thousands of dollars to attendees to come to a 5-star resort in Carlsbad and hear Mossberg and Swisher grill the titans of t

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