Web 3.0 is conceived

Cnet reports that ICANN has approved non-Latin character domain names.

Till now, the United States has ruled the Internet so thoroughly, it barely occurs to us that there's a not-United States on the Web. If you wanted on the Web, you needed to learn English or one of the more popular European languages.

Starting pretty much immediately, we will see that change. Also please note, there are somewhat more Chinese people than there are United Statesians. They will put up more Web sites than we will.

Before now, we've been the store. Now, we'll be one of the shelves.

Furthermore, this is an ALL NEW domain name land grab open for entrepreneurial types in Russia and China. All the Cyrillic sex puns are open for business.

For a little while, it will produce walled garden life for monolingual users, but that won't last. This Babel-esque turn will spawn new translation services, new keyboard applications, new businesses that most of us haven't even thought of yet, but a dozen people are already working on. A new Internet.