Stepping stone to 3.0

Posted by: Dr Ashley Tan on: April 8, 2010

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I read You Are Not a Gadget: The Continuing Case Against Web 2.0.

You are not a moron. If you realize that Web 2.0 is but a stepping stone in the evolution of the WWW. Next step? The semantic Web.

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Is Web 2.0 perfect? It is not. But it is a huge leap from Web 1.0 in that it allows everyone with the means to create and critique easily. This in turn creates LOTS of content online.

We then need to make sense of this information explosion. That is where Web 3.0 comes in. Here is a quick and dirty comparison of Web 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0.

Tags: evolution, semantic web, stepping stone, web 2.0, web 3.0