I could tell you what _I_ think the change from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 was - which was largely: "static pages" -> "pages generated in realtime" (i.e. database-backed content management systems like LJ) "Web sites as separate islands" -> "web sites bringing data together from numerous places" (i.e. things like RSS and XML data exchange meaning your data isn't locked up on one site) "Updates that require page refreshes" -> "pages that can update their data in situ" (i.e. things like Google Calendar where you can drag/drop your entries and it updates without having to interrupt you)
People coming at it from different directions talk about the social side of the web, but I figure that small amounts of that have been going on from the very beginning - it's just that we hit a critical mass of it only in 2002/3-ish that meant that you could start to assume you'd find people you knew online rather than the opposite.
Except that (a)Virtual worlds are _not_ the web. They are other software also running on the internet. (b)Who the hell wants to use a virtual world to buy a book, read LJ or listen to music?
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"static pages" -> "pages generated in realtime" (i.e. database-backed content management systems like LJ)
"Web sites as separate islands" -> "web sites bringing data together from numerous places" (i.e. things like RSS and XML data exchange meaning your data isn't locked up on one site)
"Updates that require page refreshes" -> "pages that can update their data in situ" (i.e. things like Google Calendar where you can drag/drop your entries and it updates without having to interrupt you)
People coming at it from different directions talk about the social side of the web, but I figure that small amounts of that have been going on from the very beginning - it's just that we hit a critical mass of it only in 2002/3-ish that meant that you could start to assume you'd find people you knew online rather than the opposite.
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The consensus generally seems to be that web 3.0 is 3D / virtual world web 2.0.
In MIT I am told web 2.0 is SOOO last Tuesday.
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(a)Virtual worlds are _not_ the web. They are other software also running on the internet.
(b)Who the hell wants to use a virtual world to buy a book, read LJ or listen to music?