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IS TWITTER THE START OF WEB 3.0?
 The World Wide Web. You can find recipes, connect with old class matesand buy practically anything. There seems to be every bit of informationavailable you could possibly want, and more. In fact there seems to be toomuch information. Web statistics seem to be showing that the number of failed searches, that is where someone types a term in a search engineand doesn’t find what they are looking for or gives up before they do, is onthe increase. Fear not. The guys at the top of internet pecking order arealready talking about, and planning, the Semantic Web, or Web 3.0, and itis meant to help us make sense of all of this data.So what is Web 3.0 and what does it have to do with Twitter? To explain I’llstart back a few years…
Web 1.0
 The beginning of the world wide web, which was really the internet for themasses, was all about links to pages. You would read a webpage and itwould contain a link to another web page that you would then visit if youclicked on it. In this way you could “surf the web” and end up in all sortsof strange places. Very quickly this became pretty confusing as theamount of pages increased… until Google came along anyway.
Web 2.0
A few years ago social networking burst onto the scene. This evolutiongave users the ability to connect to other users directly and edit thecontent of certain types of pages to create social networks. Today thereare many types of social networking sites ranging from
Facebook 
and
MySpace
to
Digg
and
Delicious
. People now have the power to connectwith each other, vote on any topic in a myriad of ways and exercisefreedom of speech in any way they desire.
Web 3.0
 The next big evolution in the history of the web will be connecting data tolike data or, put another way, ideas to ideas. The amount of data that
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