Definition and Evolution

Web 2.0 is "the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aim to enchance creativity, communications, secure information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the web", as cited from Wikipedia.

In short, Web 2.0 is the web you are accessing everyday. The difference between Web 2.0 and its ancestor is identified by Bart Decrem, ex-CEO of Flock, as "participatory Web" and "Web-as-information-source" respectively.

Throughout the years, the internet has evolved to let not only the webmaster to input or change the information of a web but the user as well, such as Wikipedia.

Other Web 2.0 sites are Flickr, which allows the uploading of photos and Youtube, which allows the sharing of videos. This function of storing and sharing multimedia can only be seen in Web 2.0.

There are arguments that the Web 2.0 is not a new version of Internet but rather, a continuation of using Web 1.0's technologies and concepts. Amazon.com was cited as an example. Since 1995, Amazon allows users to contribute reviews and guides. This function has been a factor of being a Web 2.0 website but Amazon has this function since the age of Web 1.0.

Tim Berners-Lee, a computer scientist that is credited for inventing the World Wide Web says that "if Web 2.0 for you is blogs and wikis, then that is people to people. But that was what the Web was supposed to be all along." "A piece of Jargon" is what he described the term "Web 2.0".

I feel that Web 2.0 is a new revolution of the internet. In Web 1.0, we could not upload and share pictures and videos. We ain't allowed to change the web contents at that time, except Amazon probably. When the uploading and sharing of multimedia is introduced, it changes the whole internet. The number behind the term "Web 2.0" means this is the second version. A version is created whenever changes or modifications are made.

What are your view of the net being called Web 2.0?

There has been anticipation of the coming of Web 3.0. Artificial Intelligence and advancement in computer graphics have been some factors to the evolving Web. Take a look at this website, http://www.a-i.com/. It has a messenger bot that can converse
with humans. In Web 2.0, we can see little or no use of AI. John Markoff of the New York Times call Web 3.0 as "The Intelligent Web".

If there will be Web 3.0, what new functions of the web would you like to see?