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Web 3.0 simply explained
Web 3.0 is when we accept Web 2.0 and get on with our lives . . . Simple.
Web 2.0, besides being an annoying buzzword, is the 'new' Web. What's 'new' ???
It's READ-WRITE. Anyone can simply create content via blogging, MySpace, YouTube and cheap video cameras, etc.
Hasn't the Web always been read-write? Yeah, sort of, but it's been "READ MAINLY."
Your average Joe or Josephine isn't going to start a traditional Web site because it's relatively complex and if they do it'll be abandoned and never updated -- stale boring content. Oh yeah, they *could*, but they *could* also so many highly unlikely things, like take Salsa lessons, volunteer at a soup kitchen, or start a bowling league!
So Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 are incredible simple. What's the complicated part -- the part no one (that means you and me) understands??
The long term effects of Web 2.0 -- as in what happens in a couple of months. How society changes. How business changes. How interpersonal relationships change.
Maybe some things are obvious -- but far more aren't and can't be predicted. Viva la revolution baby!
Note to self: Make sure to re-read this in a few months and gage exactly how stupid you feel because you wrote this. And then remember the Internet including the Web 2.0 part is public the next time you wanna make a fool of yourself!
Addendum: So like this really cool bald dude beat me with his rendition of Web4, no '.0' needed. As usual, Seth Godin is ahead of the curve, no matter how anyone may try to warp it. Seth's a regular read of mine, and I'm honored he agreed to be in my latest book!
Ted if memory serves, the internet of the 80's and early 90's was fully interactive; it consisted of mostly forums and bulletin board servers, as well as IRC chat for the ladies.
The Beast remembers the first time somebody gave him a copy of mozilla to use to browse this new thing called "The World Wide Web". It was slow (pages took forever to load), picture-laden and not at all interactive. He did not like it and predicted it would never catch on.
Also if memory serves you were playing with mainframes a HP at the time and had no interest in little crummy PC's.
Posted by: The Hairy Beast | 23 January 2007 at 10:36 PM
Mainframes??
They were workstations my man. I was waiting for PCs to catch up and not holding my breath.
Yes, there was certainly some interactiveness in the dark ages for sure, but not at the level of today. Most people did have your powers, Oh Hairy Beast-like one, and could not take over a forum or BB by mere force of personality. The experience was much different for them.
Now even our old friend Mitchelheimer can have a voice, assuming he ever learned how to write, or perhaps annuciate clearly.
Posted by: Ted Demopoulos, Blogging for Business | 23 January 2007 at 11:44 PM
The historical discussion is interesting - I just talked a little bit about the evolution of these technologies on my blog...
http://andypiper.wordpress.com/2007/01/24/the-quicksand-of-web-20/
What caught my eye about this post was the Web 3.0 moniker. A number of people are calling the 3d Internet - technologies like Second Life - "Web 3.0".
I jokingly called myself Web 4.0 yesterday, just to keep myself ahead of a colleague. I reckon it involves floating holographic always-on social network displays as we walk :-D
Posted by: andyp | 24 January 2007 at 04:46 AM
Andy,
Now we need a Web (or other) technology that actually saves time :)
Posted by: Ted Demopoulos, Blogging for Business | 24 January 2007 at 06:07 PM