The year 2007 is just about to wrap up and there are several predictions on the Web for next year. Whilst several bloggers are arguing on the statement that Web 2.0 will die in year 2008, predicted by an U.K. research firm SciVisum, however in China a nice little Beijing based startup Lonol has quietly launched its homepage with the adoption of Web 3.0 methodologies and technologies.

Lonol is a Web platform that allowed its users to personalize the homepage in addition to aggregate the news content. In a news source (in Mandarin) from Lonol, they have a perspective that Web 1.0 is purely solved the “read” problem when Web surfers surf on the Web. On the other hand, Web 2.0 solved the “write” problem, and with the emergence of Lonol personalized homepage, it will solve the problems of informational needs when users want to get the information on the Web. Since Lonol personalized homepage will initially available in Chinese, and rather than being impediment to non-Chinese users, they’ve planned to add a translation engine that translate all their content to other languages that include: English, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, just to name a few.