Monday, May 3, 2010

1.0? 2.0? 3.0?

Web 3.0 is the next step in the advancement of the web and its applications. Thinking about the web now and how advanced it is, and knowing that is only going to be more advanced is a concept that I have a hard time wrapping my brain around. I feel as though the release of web 3.0 is going to bring about a lot of changes on the web and the way in which we view it. Not knowing very much about what web 3.0 is going to entail I took the liberty of doing some research on the subject matter. My findings both intrigued me and made me question how they are going to pull this one off.

The website which greatly helped me form a grasp on what web 3.0 is going to offer was labnol.org. This website broken down web 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 and explaining what each had and what they lacked. They explained these webs in simple English, which is something that someone who is not too, too technologically savvy could appreciate. They had tag lines for each web which I found to be simple and to the point of what each of them offer. Web 1.0 is "the mostly read only web", web 2.0 is "the wildly read-write web" and finally, web 3.0 is described as "the portable personal web". Loving the idea of anything portable, I continued reading. Web 3.0 is going to be all about sematic web, it is going to have about personalization by the user and be a more easy accessible and easy to use web. Web 3.0 is going to basically be your personal assistant. I learned that you will be able to type in sentence into your web 3.0 browser and it will analyze your request and direct you accordingly. The more you use it, the more its going to learn about you (which is actually creepy) and the more it's going to start recognizing the things you like and will direct you to places you'll like without even knowing you like them yet.

The future has a lot in store for us and web 3.0 is just the beginning. Before you know it we might be able to have holographic cell phones, or be able to ichat directly from our smart phones. Who knows what the future holds; all I know is that is just keeps getting smarter and smarter.

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