The Web, where is it going?
So we all know web 1.0 was the start of this web numbering system. I suppose that is obvious being the number 1 and all. So for some of you that may or may not know, we are currently in the web2.0 phase. We have been here since the web 2.0 boom in 2001. Some would say that we are still in the early stages of the internet.”Still a puppy some would say, Still a puppy”. What we can say about this puppy is that it has completely changed the way we operate in this world. It has given us so much information at our finger tips, thousands and thousands of different website, some with extremely useful information and well on the other hand completely – please excuse the French- crap information. Also let’s not forget about the amount of porn out there. Some would say that’s terrible and others would say that’s great, personally I think its great, but let’s not let our minds wonder here.

Web 1.0 was based on the read-only environment, where what you saw is what you got, very much information based, and then all of a sudden people/geeks started getting clever with this whole thing and said “hey! Why not give the users of the websites the option to comment or to put up their own content instead of the boring over read single user type information. Then bang!…..Web2.0 the read-write environment. From this we had an explosion of websites, with a lot of dudes making a hell of a lot of money.

Posting images, videos, commenting and blogging became a craze. People couldn’t get enough of this… American kids got fatter, Australian kids got lazier, England kids became cheekier. And African kids well they, they just carried on as normal because they didn’t have the internet.

So now we on the verge of what some experts would like to call web 3.0. The so called read-write-execute environment. So what does this mean for us simple minded end users? To be honest, no one really knows, but what seems to be popping up around the internet is the use of web based applications, basically meaning that there might be a trend towards downloadable apps for specific use….or not, it’s up to debate.

Another thing that might come out this, is intelligent based web searches, i.e. artificial intelligence, AI as they call it……wooooo, so what the hell does this really mean, It means that when you search for something it won’t bring up a (keyword search vs most visited) results, what this means is that your search engine will reason with your input in a “quasi-human fashion” so it will try and understand what you are looking for and not just spit out any keyword/tag related results. It will direct you to hopefully exactly what you’re looking for. All the more functionality to sift through some billions of WebPages out there. Anyway that’s a small bit of info about this hiding giant, so I will let you ponder more on that. So let’s wait and see what happens in the next year or so.

One last quote from Google CEO Eric Schmidt – “Web 3.0 will be applications which are pieced together – relatively small, the data is in the cloud, can run on any device (PC or mobile), very fast, very customizable, and distributed virally (social networks, email, etc).”  - Thanks Eric

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