Well this is my very first post for dear Mr. Abel's class. What fascinated me was how the internet evolved from Web 1.0 to 2.0 and is now moving on to 3.0! Correct me if I'm wrong but what I gathered so far from class is that:
Web 1.0 was about reading, Web 2.0 is about writing
Web 1.0 was about companies, Web 2.0 is about communities
Web 1.0 was about home pages, Web 2.0 is about blogs
Web 1.0 was about portals, Web 2.0 is about RSS
Web 1.0 was about taxonomy, Web 2.0 is about tags
Web 1.0 was about wires, Web 2.0 is about wireless
Web 1.0 was about owning, Web 2.0 is about sharing
Web 1.0 was about Netscape, Web 2.0 is about Google
Web 1.0 was about dialup, Web 2.0 is about broadband
Web 1.0 was about hardware costs, Web 2.0 is about bandwidth costs
Web 1.0 was about control, Web 2.0 is about freedom and liberty
Web 1.0 was about taking, Web 2.0 is about giving
Web 1.0 was about pushing (publish information), Web 2.0 is about pulling (aggregation)
Web 1.0 was about mass-customization, Web 2.0 is about personalisation
Web 1.0 was about adoption, Web 2.0 is about adaptation
A Comparison of Web 1.0 and Web 2.0
The amount of accomplishments that have been made in addition to the structure is surprising. Web 1.0 began as a place for businesses to broadcast information to people. Now, many years later, it has become a place for people to offer up information as well.
It is this integration of people and the Web that is the heart of the Web 2.0 creation. In the beginning, people read what others wrote and they were comfortable with the knowledge. But, over time, these same people decided they wanted to be a part of the information superhighway.
Families began creating home pages to keep in touch with members many miles away. AOL was the hottest Internet service provider in the nation and Netscape was a thing of beauty. Now, times have moved forward and these concepts have faded amidst a blurringly large amount of information, data and words.
There are simply too many words on the Internet. Too much information all gathered under one preface: www. Moving from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 has nothing to do with programmers and data engineers, it has to do with people all gathering together to become a part of one large communities.
No longer will humans sit back and merely listen to the news they are fed, they will blog, forum post and comment to everyone they know, how they feel about that news. No longer will people need to keep track of web addresses; RSS feeds will live on computer screens. The new Web is and will be, the “Digital Natives” gift to the future generations.
The differences between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 are numerous, interfaces are more friendly, informations are more global, people are more connected and datas are more easily searched. With time, Web 2.0 will become commonplace, but for now, relish the new and exciting nature of community togetherness.
Web 3.0
Web 2.0 services are now the commoditized platform, not the final product. In a world where a social network, wiki, or social bookmarking service can be built for free and in an instant, what’s next?
Web 2.0 services like digg and YouTube evolve into Web 3.0 services with an additional layer of individual excellence and focus. As an example, funnyordie.com leverages all the standard YouTube Web 2.0 feature sets like syndication and social networking, while adding a layer of talent and trust to them.
A version of digg where experts check the validity of claims, corrected errors, and restated headlines to be more accurate would be the Web 3.0 version. However, I’m not sure if the digg community will embrace that any time soon.
Wikipedia, considered a Web 1.5 service, is experiencing the start of the Web 3.0 movement by locking pages down as they reach completion, and (at least in their German version) requiring edits to flow through trusted experts.
Also of note, is what Web 3.0 leaves behind. Web 3.0 throttles the “wisdom of the crowds” from turning into the “madness of the mobs” we’ve seen all to often, by balancing it with a respect of experts. Web 3.0 leaves behind the cowardly anonymous contributors and the selfish blackhat SEOs that have polluted and diminished so many communities.
Web 3.0 is a return to what was great about media and technology before Web 2.0: recognizing talent and expertise, the ownership of ones words, and fairness. It’s time to evolve, shall we?
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