Canada-e-Connect keynote presenter Anthony D. Williams is the co-author (with Don Tapscott) of WIKINOMICS: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything. Mr. Williams is also Vice President and Executive Editor for New Paradigm, based in Toronto.

This morning I spent some time reading through the Wikinomics website, and I’ve found it to be an exciting resource. In a recent post on their blog, Denis Hancock uploaded a video captured at the Seoul Digital Forum. The piece features Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt defining the term Web 3.0 after being asked the question by an audience member.

From the Wikinomics blog:

His prediction for how the Web 3.0 might play out focuses on a “different way to build applications”… and it sounds a lot like the next evolution of the mash ups concept Don and Anthony wrote about in the book. Key sound bites include “applications that are pieced together”… “applications that are relatively small”… “applications can run on any device”…”applications are distributed virally” (social networks, email)… and perhaps most interestingly:

“That’s a very different application model than we’ve ever seen in computing. Very different from the mainframe era, very different from the PC industry, and likely to be very, very large. There are low barriers to entry, the new generation of tools… make it relatively easy to do, solve a lot of problems, and work everywhere.”

View Eric Schmidt’s live response here: