I’ve just finished reading a very informative article suggested to us in our ETL401 module by our lecturer. Lorenzo’s (2007) article gave a brief summary of a list of technological jargon that I’ve heard of but some I’ve never bothered to find out what they mean. Things like Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 and RSS Feeds. Chatting to a friend at school today, I mentioned that I was reading about Web 2.0 and she told me that was old hat. The new buzz word was Web 3.0! So doing a Google search I found this overview of the differences between Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0.
Web 1.0 - That Geocities & Hotmail era was all about read-only content and static HTML websites. People preferred navigating the web through link directories of Yahoo! and dmoz.
Web 2.0 - This is about user-generated content and the read-write web. People are consuming as well as contributing information through blogs or sites like Flickr, YouTube, Digg, etc. The line dividing a consumer and content publisher is increasingly getting blurred in the Web 2.0 era.
Web 3.0 - This will be about semantic web (or the meaning of data), personalization (e.g. iGoogle), intelligent search and behavioral advertising among other things.
Web 3.0 is mainly about personalizing the web to suit you as an individual.
Here is a good website to look at if you want a good example of how Web 3.0 might work:
Reference
Lorenzo, G. (2007). Catalysts for Change: Information Fluency, Web 2.0, Library 2.0, and the New Education Culture. Clarence Centre, NY: Lorenzo Associates, Inc., March.http://computer.howstuffworks.com/web-30.htm
This image from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/7493873@N02/1234526868
Take a look at the following YouTube video on the differences between Web 2.0 and Web 3.0. It explains Web 3.0 comprehensively.
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