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I was browsing through the aol e-mail newsletter recently and an article by Tara Taghizadeh caught my eye. It announced the immanent arrival of Web 3.0. Since I had been totally unaware that there had been a Web 1.0 or 2.0, I looked with great interest to see how she had defined them. Some excerpts from her article follow:
In the beginning… Web 1.0 was all about basics. Back then, websites provided information with little opportunity for user interaction and feedback -- a one-way process dubbed “read-only.” The most interactive user activities involved chat and instant messaging.
Then Web 2.0 came along and introduced the world to blogs, social-networking sites, and a host of self-publishing tools. Articles are now accompanied with “comments” tools, and any hack with a computer can create a blog. Content exploded on the web, and a considerable portion of it is created by average users
Web 3.0 is coming! What industry analysts foresee for the next version is a more personalized and easy-to- use web, eliminating several steps from your online searches to make them quicker. Hence, your computer is 'smarter’ and can better understand what you are searching for. According to PC Magazine, “the Semantic Web is a place where machines can read web pages much as we humans read them, a place where search engines and software agents can better troll the Net and find what we're looking for.”
For example, if you are planning a weekend getaway to a mountain lodge and you want to make sure that there are convenience stores nearby, you wouldn’t have to conduct separate searches for lodges and stores. The web would simply deliver search results for both and categorize it in such a way that you would know which places are more convenient.
A Tip of the Hat to aol for thus headsup!
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