Web 2.0, Web 3.

0, and user
participation in the web
 Web
• ->referred formally as
World Wide Web (www) is
collection of information
which is accessed via
the Internet.
• ->is service on top of that
infrastructure.
• Tim Berners-Lee
• ->director of World Wide
Web Consortium and the
inventor of the World
Wide Web (in 1989).
• Web 1.0
• ->The first iteration of the
web represents the web 1.0,
which, according to Berners-
Lee, is the “read-only web.”
• In other words, the early
web allowed us to search
for information and read it.
• There was very little in the
way of user interaction or
content generation.
• Example of Web 1.0
• Shopping Cart
Application
• catalog or a brochure
->The overall goal is to
present products to
potential customers
 Web 2.0
• ->the “read-write” web ( Berners-Lee)
• ->It’s the ability to contribute content and interact
with other web users.
Example of WEB 2.0
• a welcome response to
web users, who want to
participate in the
information.
 WEB 3.0
• This leads us web 3.0 (extending
the vague nomenclature). By
extrapolating Tim Berners-Lee’s
explanations, web 3.0 is “read-
write-execute.”
• This is difficult to envision in its
abstract form.
• To illustrate, consider semantic
markup and web services.
• Semantic markup
• ->refers to the communication gap between humans and
computerized applications.
• ->One of the biggest challenges of presenting information
on the web is that applications cannot provide context to
data, and, therefore, can’t understand what is relevant.
• ->Through the use of some sort of semantic markup (or
data interchange formats), data could be put in a form not
only accessible to humans via natural language, but able to
be understood and interpreted by software applications as
well.
• Example of Semantic markup
While it is still
evolving, this
notion —
formatting data to
be understood by
software agents
— leads to the
“execute” portion
of the web 3.0
definition.
• web service
• ->is a software that supports computer-to-computer
interaction over the internet.
• ->a software service used to communicate between
two devices on a network. More specifically, a Web
service is a software application with a standardized
way of providing interoperability between disparate
applications.
• The popular photography-sharing website Flickr
provides a web service whereby developers can
programmatically interface to search for images.
• There are thousands of web services. Combining
semantic markup and web services can produce a
web 3.0 experience — applications that can speak
to each other directly and interpret information for
humans.