Thursday, April 16, 2009

There is No Web 3.0, There is No Web 2.0 - There is Just the Web

While doing some research for a recent essay on digital media technologies I came across this article, 'There is no Web 3.0, there is no web 2.0 - there is just the web'. There are some interesting points made in it so I have a read and see what you think.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/there_is_no_web_30_there_is_no_web_20.php

"The points of contrast [between Web 2.0 and Web 3.0] are actually the same points that I used to distinguish Web 2.0 from Web 1.5. (I've always said that Web 2.0 = Web 1.0, with the dot com bust being a side trip that got it wrong.)," wrote O'Reilly last fall. In otherw words, the versioning of the web is silly. Web 1.0, 2.0, or 3.0 is all really just whatever cool new thing we're using the web to accomplish right now.

I won't use the term "Web 2.0" in my reply, I'll just tell them that we write about the web, what you can do with it now, and what you'll be able to do with it in the future.

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