Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, Web 4.0

What is Web 2.0?

 

Web 2.0 is a revolutionary view of the Internet and the social and business uses of advanced technologies rather than the technical aspects of those technologies. The core concept of Web 2.0 is: Use Internet as a platform and leverage network effect to harness the collective intelligence in a cost-effective manner

 

What is Web 3.0?

 

The Next Generation Web: Search Context for Online Information

A web of meanings and connected knowledge.

Web 3.0 = Web 2.0 + semantic web + AI.

Knowledge-centric patterns of computing.

 

What is Web 4.0?

 

A web of connected intelligence.

Everything communicating, everywhere, all the time, sleepless.

 

 

Difference Between Web 2.0 and Web 1.0?

 

  Web 1.0 was about reading, Web 2.0 is about writing.

  Web 1.0 we had sermons. Web 2.0 We have conversations. Web 3.0? We know what      you’re   thinking before you even do it.

 Web 1.0 was about companies, Web 2.0 is about communities

 Web 1.0 was about client-server, Web 2.0 is about peer to peer

  Web 1.0 was about HTML, Web 2.0 is about XML

  Web 1.0 was about home pages, Web 2.0 is about blogs

  Web 1.0 was about lectures, Web 2.0 is about conversation

  Web 1.0 was about advertising, Web 2.0 is about word of mouth

  Web 1.0 was about services sold over the web, Web 2.0 is about web services

Web 1.0 was top-down. Web 2.0 is bottom-up.

Web 1.0 was edited and produced. Web 2.0 is raw.

Web 1.0 was banner ads. Web 2.0 is Adsense.

Web 1.0 was text. Web 2.0 is video.

Web 1.0 was professional. Web 2.0 is amature.

Web 1.0 was dial up. Web 2.0 is broadband.

Web 1.0 was IE. Web 2.0 is FireFox.

Web 1.0 was information. Web 2.0 is opinion.

Wait a minute, enough fun and games. Let’s get real and take off the rosy-colored glasses.

Web 1.0 was information. Web 2.0 is propaganda.

Web 1.0 was Microsoft. Web 2.0 is Google. Web 3.0 is ATT and NSA, working to protect us.

Web 1.0 was American. Web 2.0 is international. Web 3.0 is Chinese.

Web 1.0 was a tool. Web 2.0 is a lifestyle. Web 3.0 is an addiction.

Web 1.0 was a tool for the few. Web 2.0 is entertainment for the many. Web 3.0 is an opiate for the many.

Web 1.0 was the newspaper. Web 2.0 is the TV. Web 3.0 is the Matrix.

 

Difference Between Web 3.0 and Web 2.0?

 

In the Web 2.0 universe, searching Google for “Gary Price” will yield a plethora of unrelated hits. Web 3.0 solves this problem by providing context to searching for online information.

Openness

Web 3.0 is about openness. By “opening” application programming interfaces (APIs), protocols, data formats, open-source software platforms and open data, you open up possibilities for creating new tools. Although Unlike openness can result in identity theft, Web 3.0 attempts to remedy this through:

• Open identity
• OpenID
• Open reputation
• The ability for roaming portable identity and personal data.

Interoperability

By opening up access to information, Web 3.0 applications can run on any device, computer, or mobile phone. Applications can be very fast and customizable. Unlike Web 2.0, where programs such as Facebook and MySpace exist in separate silos, Web 3.0 allows users to roam freely from database to database, program to program.

A Global Database

Conceptually, Web 3.0 should be viewed as one large database. Dubbed "The Data Web", web 3.0 uses structured data records published to the Web in reusable and remote-queriable formats. XML technologies such as RDF Schema, OWL, SPARQL will make this possible by allowing information to be read across different programs across the web.

3D Web & Beyond

Web 3.0 will use a three dimensional model and transform it into a series of 3D spaces. Services such as Second Life and the use of personalized avatars will be a common feature of the 3D web. Web 3.0 will extend beyond into the physical; imagine a Web connected to everything not only your cellphone but your car, microwave and clothes, thus truly making for an integrated experience.

Control of Information

Where Web 3.0 is about control of information web 2.0 is about information overload. The most obvious example is in the sheer explosion of programs and passwords on the Web which claim to encourage networking and socialization. Web 3.0 attempts to bring order and allow users to be more accurate in searching and finding precisely what they want.

 

Semantic Web versus Web 3.0?

What is most confusing is the difference between the Semantic Web and Web 3.0 – both are conceptual entities. However, rather than competing spaces they should be viewed as successive layers that are developing. By adding the semantic web to Web 2.0, we move conceptually closer to web 3.0. The underlying technologies of the Semantic Web, which enrich content and the intelligence of the social web, pulls in user profiles and identities, and must be combined for Web 3.0 to work.

 

Social Media Sharing Resources

 

Communication

 

* Blogs: Blogger, Livejournal, TypePad, Wordpress, Tripod

* Mobile blogging and alerting: Twitter

* Social networking: MySpace, Bebo, Facebook, LinkedIn, Orkut, Skyrock

 

Collaboration

 

* Wikis: Wikispaces (personal)

* Social bookmarking: del.icio.us, StumbleUpon

* Social News Sites: Digg, Mixx, Reddit

* Opinion sites: epinions, Yelp, CitySearch, CultureMob

 

Multimedia

 

* Photo sharing: Flickr, Photobucket, SmugMug

* Video sharing: YouTube, Google video

* Livecasting: Ustream, Justin.tv, Stickam

* Audio and Music Sharing: imeem, The Hype Machine, Last.fm, ccMixter

 

Entertainment

 

* Virtual worlds: Second Life, There.com

* Online gaming: World of Warcraft

* Game sharing: Miniclip.com

 

 

More on web 4.0

 

Web 2.0 may have been about web applications and combining data, and Web 3.0 may have been about the great availability of the super-information cloud through aggregated applications leveraging articulated APIs.

Web 4.0 is the impending state at which all information converges into a great ball of benevolent self-aware light, and solves every problem from world peace to why lost stinks this season. All humans will begin working 24x7 to feed our new data overlord on a steady diet of email, PowerPoint foils, and cute pictures of our grandkids and/or dogs. The final transition to this state of computational bliss will be achieved by the soon to be announced Super Core Infinity Grande processor line, which puts an infinite number of cores in a single processor.