Web 1.0 to Web 3.

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Web Service
• A web service is a software system designed to support
computer-to-computer interaction over the Internet. Web
services are not new and usually take the form of an
Application Programming Interface (API).
• In today’s world of extreme competition on the business
front, information exchange and efficient communication
is the need of the day.
• The web is an increasingly important resource in many
aspects of life: education, employment, government,
commerce, health care,recreation, and more. The web is
a system of interlinked, hypertext documents accessed
via the Internet. With a web browser, a user views web
pages that may contain text, images, videos, other
multimedia and navigates between them using hyperlinks.
• The web was created in 1989 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee,
working at CERN (The European Organization for
Nuclear Research) in Geneva, Switzerland. Since then,
Berners-Lee has played an active role in guiding the
development of web standards (such as the markup
languages in which web pages are composed), in recent
years has advocated his vision of a Semantic web.
Web 1.0
• In web 1.0, a small number of writers created web pages for a large
number of readers. As a result, people could get information by
going directly to the source. The WWW or Web 1.0 is a system of
interlinked, hypertext documents accessed via the Internet.
• The first implementation of the web represents the web 1.0, which,
according to Berners-Lee, could be considered 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 contribution. However, this is exactly what most website
owners wanted: Their goal for a website was to establish an online
presence and make their information available to anyone at any
time.
Web 2.0
• The newly-introduced ability to contribute content and interact with other
web users has dramatically changed the landscape of the web in a short
time.
• In alluding to the version numbers that commonly designate software
upgrades, the phrase “Web 2.0” hints at an improved form of the WWW.
• Technologies such as weblogs (blogs), social bookmarking, wiki. s,
podcasts, RSS feeds (and other forms of many-to-many publishing),
social software, web APIs, and online web services such as eBay and
Gmail provide enhancements over read-only websites
• Stephen Fry (actor, author, and broadcaster) describes
Web 2.0 as “an idea in people’s heads rather than a
reality. It’s actually an idea that the reciprocity between
the user and the provider is what’s emphasized. In other
words, genuine interactivity, if you like, simply because
people can upload as well as download”.
• Tim O’Reilly popularized web 2.0 as an expression when he wrote a fairly
coherent definition. Web 2.0 is definitely the next big thing in the WWW. It
makes use of latest technologies and concepts in order to make the user
experience more interactive, useful and interconnecting.
• It has brought yet another way to interconnect the world by means of
collecting information and allowing it to be shared affectively. It definitely
has a bright future with so many Web 2.0 based websites coming up. It is
a revolution in the field of computers and will definitely achieve far greater
success.
• According to some sources, the term Web 2.0 has been
around since about October 2004.
• From Wikipedia, the free Web encyclopedia, it is defined
as Web 2.0 is a term often applied to a perceived ongoing
transition of the WWW from a collection of websites to a
full-fledged computing platform serving web applications
to end users.
• Ultimately web 2.0 services are expected to replace
desktop computing applications for many purposes.
Web 3.0
• Web 3.0 is a term that has been coined to describe the evolution of Web
usage and interaction that includes transforming the Web into a database.
• Web 3.0 is an era in which we will upgrade the back-end of the Web, after
a decade of focus on the front-end (Web 2.0 has mainly been about AJAX,
tagging, and other front-end user-experience innovations.)
• This in turn leads us to the rumblings and mumblings we have begun to
hear about Web 3.0, which seems to provide us with a guarantee that
vague web-versioning nomenclature is here to stay.
• By extending Tim Berners-Lee’s explanations, the Web
3.0 would be something akin to a “read-write-execute”
web.
• Web 3.0 is defined as the creation of high-quality content
and services produced by gifted individuals using web 2.0
technologies as an enabling platform.
• Web 3.0 is a term that is used to describe various evolutions of Web
usage and interaction along several paths. These include transforming the
Web into a database, a move towards making content accessible by
multiple non-browser applications, the leveraging of artificial intelligence
technologies, the Semantic web, the Geospatial Web, or the 3D web.
• Gartner suggests the need to differentiate incremental changes to Web
2.0 from Web 3.0. Tim Berners-Lee coined Giant Global Graph (GGG) as
another facet of Web 3.0
• Web 3.0 is a web where the concept of website or webpage
disappears, where data isn’t owned but instead shared, where
services show different views for the same web / the same data.
Those services can be applications (like browsers, virtual worlds
or anything else), devices or other, and have to be focused on
context and personalization, and both will be reached by using
vertical search.
• One could speculate that the Google / Sun Microsystems
alliance to create a web based operating system for applications
like word processing and spreadsheets is an early indicator of
this trend.