Isn't it time for web 3.0?

Posted by Kenneth Ronkowitz on


I'm in the middle of a few weeks of vacation time. Just spent a week on a nice Caribbean island without a cell phone, computer or Internet connection. I actually didn't feel withdrawal symptoms or go through cold turkey.

I did read some technology news and jotted a few notes including some on good ol' Web 2.0.

Are you tired of that term yet? I like the idea behind it, but I am getting turned off by the overuse of it being attached to every new application or service.

Web 2.0 as originlly "defined" by Tim O'Reilly is very exciting and has plenty of applicability to education. He defines it by examples. What appeals most to me is the web as a tool of creation rather than as a consumer-dominated platform. The "read/write web" is another take on this idea. I suppose I would be happy with Web 1.5 if that meant that kind of web use. How about 3.0 being the web for education?

OK, but more seriously, if you want to keep up on this devlopment, add to your links:

  • techcrunch.com is a good place for Web 2.0 info
  • and web20workgroup.com is a kind of network of blogs that write about it (you can subscribe to all of these blogs from the site)

Do you think that Web 2.0 means things like the ability to:

  • integrate social network effects
  • enable semantic feeds
  • embed networking
  • reinvent social feeds?

Well, if you say "Yes", that might be a scary thought, because I got that list by using the The Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator at http://emptybottle.org

The scary part for me is that they actually sound pretty good!

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