Back in September last year, I wrote an article comparing Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0. The article is still great to read until today. However, it is nowhere nearly as illustrative as what the video is going to show you. The video will help you understand more about Web 2.0. It will also help you to explain to your friends or families about Web 2.0.
The background song, “There’s Nothing Impossible” by Deus, is equally impressive.
According to Gartner’s 2006 Emerging Technologies Hype Cycle, the following technologies will have an impact in the coming ten years.
1. WEB 2.0
Web 2.0 represents a broad collection of recent trends in Internet technologies and business models.
Social Network Analysis (maturity: less than 2 years)
SNA involves collecting massive amounts of data from multiple sources, analyzing the data to identify relationships and mining it for new information.
Example: Digg
Ajax (maturity: less than 2 years)
Ajax is a collection of techniques that Web developers use to deliver an enhanced, more-responsive user experience in the confines of a modern browser (for example, recent version of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla, Safari or Opera).
Example: Google Map
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Web 1.0 was about building websites to publish contents in HTML and sell things. Search engines are the single point of access for most web users. The higher the hit rate a website has, the higher the value it has.
Web 2.0 is about using the Web collaboratively — sharing and mixing up information and resources. The whole content pool is being analyzed by millions of talented web users. Users can consume or create contents in a personalized way either through blogs or wiki.
Search engines provide ad-hoc searching for unorganized contents as well as channels to deliver targeted contents. The playing field is spending money inside the Web to promote websites by creating as much links as possible. The higher the number of links a website has, the higher the value it can generate.
O’Reilly gives as examples: eBay, craigslist, Wikipedia, del.icio.us, Skype and Adsense