Explain Web 1.0, 2.0, 3.0

Hi everyone, Just thought of sharing this with you all. Explained in simple terms: Web 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 Web 1.0 was the content Web. Generally, information and links to more information. For business applications, the initial search directories actually blocked businesses from even being listed! Early Web 1.0 was the not-for-profit, information age. Web 2.0 has generally been regarded as the social Web. The Internet of user interaction and contribution as well as communication. It is best known for it’s social nature including Web services like: Wikipedia, Facebook, Ning, Flickr, Youtube, Skype, intranets, online banking, referrals and commenting sites, etc. Content such as blog sites, podcasts and opportunities to distribute text, photos, audio and video and even screen-sharing to a world wide audience evolved during this era. Now that we’ve got history out of the way and the definitions based on prognostications of what might have been, let’s get on to what Web 3.0 is. We have only recently crept into Web 3.0 in a more universal way in late 2008 and early 2009 Web 3.0 Defined: the location-aware and moment-relevant Internet. If there is a moment that ushered in the era of Web 3.0, it might best be represented by President Obama’s Inauguration address in the United States on January 20th, 2009, an event experienced by millions in person and shared with many more millions of people simultaneously around the world. Content relevance in Web 3.0 is heightened by location and time. Intimate connections are made between the real world and the Web, often with the use of handheld data-enabled phones like iphone and other devices. Combined with the social Web 2.0 services, Web 3.0 provides the Internet user with the opportunity to engage with people all over the world on a variety of devices. The richness of these communications and the relevance of locally available information are what add depth to Web 2.0 services, creating a new era, Web 3.0. Sure, Web 3.0 is semantic. Content is recognized by it’s context, but more easy to understand and share is a definition like this: Web 3.0: the location-aware and moment-sensitive Internet. Not only is this more accurate definition of a shift in Web technologies, it’s one that techies and non-techies will quickly come to understand without reaching for a thesaurus. ———Courtesy Chris Toombes