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by Kevin Maney
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Oct 05 2007 12:00am EDT

Web 3.0? Puh-lease.

I'm with VC and blogger Fred Wilson: Trying to define and label a Web 3.0 would be even more annoying than when that happened with Web 2.0.

How about this: Web 3.0 will be all the companies that get funded after everybody decides Web 2.0 is boring.

Which apparently is still a long way off. In a couple of weeks will be the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. It is sold out and packed to the rafters. I'll be there, blogging away.

By the way, if you're going, plan on stopping by a pretty special party the night before. Portfolio.com (that's us!), White & Case and Kompoz.com are sponsoring a "tech charity jam party" -- 7:30 pm, Oct. 16, at Rick Shaw Stop. Come watch a bunch of top tech industry characters play on stage together. I'll open the night with a few of my own tunes, backed by the White & Case house band.

Here's some embarrassing video from last year's tech charity jam party...

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