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  Out of all the Internet buzzwords and jargon that have made the transition to the public consciousness, “Web 2.0″ might be the best known. Even though a lot of people have heard about it, not many have any idea what Web 2.0 means. Some people claim that the term itself is nothing more than a marketing strategy designed to convince venture capitalists to invest millions of dollars into Web sites. When Dale Dougherty of O’Reilly Media came up with the term, there was no clear definition. There wasn’t even any agreement about if there was a Web 1.0.

In brief, the characteristics of Web 1.0, 2.0, and most discussing 3.0 is as follows.

Web 1.0 – That Geocities & Hotmail era was all about read-only content and static HTML websites. People preferred navigating the web through link directories of Yahoo! and dmoz.

Web 2.0 – This is about user-generated content and the read-write web. People are consuming as well as contributing information through blogs or sites like Flickr, YouTube, Digg, etc. The line dividing a consumer and content publisher is increasingly getting blurred in the Web 2.0 era.

Web 3.0 – This will be about semantic web (or the meaning of data), personalization (e.g. iGoogle), intelligent search and behavioral advertising among other things.

This slide neatly sums up the main differences between Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0.

If you interested and like to know more about web 3.0 check http://www.labnol.org/internet/web-3-concepts-explained/8908/

Also check a presentation by Tim Berners-Lee on the next Web. Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. He leads the
World Wide Web Consortium, overseeing the Web’s standards and development.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/lang/eng/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.html

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