What is Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Web 3.0?
These refer to the general idea of what the web is, the experience of using the web.
They don't mean any particular programming language or versions, or
even what you see on a website or how you might use a website.
Web 1.0
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Retrieve information:
"The Static Web"
Like going to a library.
"That Geocities and Hotmail era was all about read-only content and static HTML websites. People
preferred navigating the web through link directories of Yahoo! and dmoz."
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In web 1.0 we can:
Read pages, explore a web site, but can't add anything of our own.
We can: search the site or the web itself for information;
sometimes fill out a form.
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Examples:
any basic website.
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Pros and cons!
Web 2.0
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Participate:
"The Social Web", "Interactive Web"
Like a workshop, or a party.
"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."
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In web 2.0 we can:
Interact with a website, not just read it.
Communicate with other users of a website, or even of different websites.
Interact with the website itself, and even change it.
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Examples:
FaceBook, Wikipedia, Flickr, Youtube, Digg.
News sites where we can leave comments and choose which kinds of news we want to see.
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Pros and cons!
Web 3.0
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Personalize:
"The Semantic Web" ("web of meaning")
Like having a personal web assistant.
"will be about semantic web (or the meaning of data), personalization (e.g. iGoogle),
intelligent search and behavioral advertising among other things."
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In web 3.0 we will:
Search the web in a more intelligent way -- the browser will
retrieve information for us,
and even offer suggestions we may not have thought about while searching for information.
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See "our own" web; a different person would see a different web.
Websites will appear to us according to how we use the web,
what we look at the most. We don't have to set our preferences,
the web and our browser will "see" our preferences by what we do.
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Examples:
Google and other searches, that give suggestions based on what you type.
News and information sites, that show articles based on what you have already looked at.
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Pros and cons!
Where the idea came from
"Web 2.0" was coined by Darcy DiNucci in 1999.
The term started being used widely
after an
O'Reilly
web conference.
Then looking back, people called the "old web", Web 1.0;
and looking forward, they are starting to talk about "Web 3.0."
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