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I often wonder what's all the buzz about Web 2.0. I have gone through numerous sites, innumerable times but have failed to get across a single proper definition of Web 2.0 besides what Tim O'Reilly has already said. But there is no stopping for the techies...taking about Web 2.0 and some of them having deeper insight into the concept have even started talking about Web 3.0 ! :-o And also have I read articles (whose authors I'm sure are geniuses the world has seldom got
) on Web 4.0. Ahem!!!...hope I am not transfusing into you my state of confusion.Few days back I came across some interesting terms online...I would love to share them with you. Lunch 2.0, Marriage 2.0, Wardrobe 2.0, Travel 2.0...for God's sake, it's ridiculous 2.0
. I mean what's wrong with everyone of us...? Does it make any sense??? No, as for my answer.Well, I may not be a gyan guru like others but I would try (honestly without confusing you all the more) to make you understand what Web 2.0 is all about. We all remember the time when the web was read only. There was no way the users could contribute their share in a web page. That is the time when web was termed as Web 1.0. Then came the read and write web...the one we are using now. We can comment on particular content online, chat, blog, upload videos and images online, receive and send across information...this was not there during the time of Web 1.0. This state of the web is known as Web 2.0. Youtube.com, flickr.com, blogger.com, wikis, Facebook, Myspace, Orkut,Google talk, del.icio.us ... are the few instances of Web 2.0 concept. It is just that communication, flow of information and live interaction has come up as the most important concern in the Web 2.0 era.
Web 3.0 according to the latest buzz...though most of it is still behind the mist of huge confusion and doubt (and I'm talking of normal human beings with average kinda intelligence like me
), promises a semantic web which would be not only be useful for the general users but also developers. Artificial intelligence is supposed to be the major concept of Web 3.0.Well, I have had enough of these keywords. I would love to hear it from you guys...tell me what do you think of Web 2.0 and Web 3.0.. for God's sake, tell me something new !
