Today CNET has a fun piece on the evolution of the internet where - partly I think just for effect - they use the increasingly incomprehensible numbering system for “Web 1.0, 2.0, etc” that is now thrown around without much regard to consistency or even comprehensibity.
I agree with the author that we should probably abandon the Webish numbering system in favor of some online characteristics and definitions that everybody can agree about and then use terms that actually have some real - and more importantly consistent - meaning behind them.

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Labels: web 2.0, web 3.0

Come celebrate the end of Web 2.0 at the Web 2.0 Conference & Expo on January 29, 2008. Meet and mingle with the who’s who of the web and usher in The New Web.

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Labels: Facebook, web 2.0, web 3.0

Talk about portable widgets is not new. After all, 2007 has been proclaimed “Year of the Widget” by Newsweek. Though what I intend to discuss here is more about portability aspects and efforts in this direction rather than about widgets themselves. One of the early entrants in the market was Knofabulator (remember anyone?) which was bought by Yahoo. Then it seemed that they didn’t know what to do with it and rebranded it but added no extra functionalities. A few days back it was in the news that Yahoo was releasing version 4.5 of its Konfabulator widget. The new More»

Labels: Eric Schmidt, google, Mobile, web 2.0, web 3.0, web applications, Web Apps, widgets, Yahoo, YHOO

Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt, was recently asked how he would define Web 3.0 and what Web 3.0 means to Google.
I am paraphrasing below so watch the video as well.
Web 2.0 is a different way of building applications using Ajax as the underlying technology.
Web 3.0 are applications that are pieced together which are relatively small, the data is in the cloud, apps can run on any device (PC or mobile), apps are very fast, very customizable, apps distributed virally by social networks and email, not store bought.
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Labels: ajax, applications, Mobile, pc, web 2.0, web 3.0