The third stage of the world wide web, web 3.0, which mainly means a 3D interaction between the users, along with network computing, better connectivity and intelligent applications, could become a reality in the next five to seven years. From the static web 1.0, organized as a heterogeneous network of hosted personal pages, to the current web 2.0 that, indeed, brought interactivity and better speed, the move to a completely new experience is not that futuristic.

An analysis performed by Virtual Worlds Management shows that the companies that have virtual worlds-related businesses spent over $184 million for their expansion in the first quarter of 2008. The sustained efforts of the competitors on the market could lead to a brand new world for the users to navigate in. This idea, of making web 3.0 real in the near future, is underscored by Philippe Destoop, the Enterprise Architect for the Belgian and Luxembourg Developer and Platform Group of Microsoft, on the MSN architects’ blog.