The death of Web 2.0 is nigh | Technology | Technology | The Observer - 0 views
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The death of Web 2.0 is nigh…
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The death of Web 2.0 is nigh… Our lives were changed by Web 2.0 platform technology, but according to an industry watcher its days are numbered
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Our lives were changed by Web 2.0 platform technology, but according to an industry watcher its days are numbered
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The prediction of Web 2.0's demise was made by Christopher Mims, a technology commentator who writes for the MIT journal Technology Review. He started by typing Web 2.0 into Google Trends search engine
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As it happens, Web 2.0 does mean something, even though the definition gets a bit fuzzy round the edges. It first appeared in 1999
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if the internet itself was the platform on which Web 1.0 – the first version of the Web as a simple publication system – was built, then Web 2.0 was the platform on which new, innovative applications could be built.
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Online mapping systems
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Image-hosting services
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social networking services such as MySpace, Orkut, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.
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Cloud computing
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So one way of looking at Web 2.0 is simply to say that it's "the web done properly"
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The big question, of course, is what will Web 3.0 be like? And the answer, I suppose, is that if we knew that then we wouldn't be here.
