Well here are a few thoughts. I can’t get as into the tech stuff a la O’Reilly so I am not touching BitTorrent (whatever that is).
| Web 1.0 | Web 2.0 | Web 3.0 |
| Ofoto -> | Flickr -> | incorporated into Facebook page! |
| mp3.com -> | Napster -> | iTunes, YouTube |
| personal websites -> | blogging -> | Facebook or MySpace |
| stickiness-> | syndication-> | synergy (?) |
1. Conglomeration. Everything interconnected. It’s not so much about a blog and a photo site and etc. It’s about one site that holds all your stuff.
2. Standard bearer? Facebook et al. (Primarily Facebook though.) Forget Netscape and Google. The interactive personalizable sites are the future with all their apps. (If “apps” is the term I want for “applications.”
O’Reilly wrote this in 2005? For the tech industry, that’s approximately equivalent to twenty years of politics.
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Eric Schmidt: "But if I were to guess what Web 3.0 is, I would tell you that it's a different way of building applications... My prediction would be that Web 3.0 will ultimately be seen as applications which are pieced together. There are a number of characteristics: the applications are relatively small, the data is in the cloud, the applications can run on any device, PC or mobile phone, the applications are very fast and they're very customizable. Furthermore, the applications are distributed virally: literally by social networks, by email. You won't go to the store and purchase them... That's a very different application model than we've ever seen in computing." (May 2007)
