iBlogpost 2.0
Everything is version 2.0 at the moment: the internet, governments, journalism, Vegemite.
Even though the tech industry has been talking about web 2.0 for over a decade, it’s a new concept for most of us, mostly because it’s only started influencing our daily lives in the last couple of years.
Here’s a little background for those who (like me until a few minutes ago) aren’t sure of the exact distinction.
Web 1.0 was the internet that presented information—about companies and government services, news articles, uni course information, library catalogues and so on.
Web 2.0 is the one that allows us to interact with the information that is presented (making comments, editing wikis), that provides programs and platforms that you can only use through a web browser (Facebook, Flickr, Vimeo), and gives us ways to create our own experience of the web and share it with others (RSS, Digg, Delicious, Stumbleupon).
All this evolution in the way we interact amounts to wholesale change to the landscape of how people and businesses engage with each other and the world.
The Edge is part of this shift. We’re pushing forward with the possibilities presented by emerging technologies to create, enhance, and communicate. We’ll probably end up creating a lot of new ways to communicate and store knowledge as well.
There are so many connections to made between all the different technologies that have been developed over the last 30 years or longer. It’s a new era because everything is linking up and synergising.
A prime example of the trend is smart phones. They’re aggregators of all the technologies that have become part of our lives—internet and email, digital cameras, calculators, mobile phones, mp3 players, photo albums, voice recorders, answering machines, maps.
And that’s just a phone with no extra applications.
And web 3.0? It looks like no one can really agree on a definition. What do you think it is?
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Web 3.0 is also refered to as the Semantic web. It will be an intelligent web where searching is easier and we can pull information to us with a high degree of accuracy rather than having to go and find it ourselves, or rely on a keyword search to find what we want… computers will be able to recognise different sections of a page and automatically pick out things like names & places and create links to other relevant information…. computers won’t just process data, they’ll process information & knowledge…
I agree with Sally but would like to add tha web 3.0 could also see the start of better live content and better connectivity, not just to people but to devices.
The interesting thing is when you add mobile content which is not dynamic and Web 3.0 could see the evolution of more dynamic mobile content for devices like Symbian Phones and not just iPhones and Android Phones.