World Wide Web or WWW
was first introduced in the year 1991. But, later, as the technology advanced,
new versions of web standards in the form of Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 came
into existence. However, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 are obviously considered more
advanced and easy to use when compared with Web 1.0. But, most of the people
are confusing with the changes and the evolution that have taken place. This
article aims to be clear out the difference between Web 2.0 and Web 3.0.
S.No
|
Web
2.0
|
Web
3.0
|
1
|
“The document Web”
|
“The metadata Web”
|
2
|
“The social Web”
|
“The intelligent Web”
|
3
|
Static
|
Highly mobile,
three-dimensional or 3D
|
4
|
Controversial
|
Even more
controversial
|
5
|
Writable phrase of the
WWW
|
Executable phrase of the
WWW with interactive services, dynamic applications and “machine-to-machine”
interaction
|
6
|
Uses the read-write web
|
Uses semantic web
|
7
|
Google as catalyst
|
Semantic Web companies as catalyst
|
8
|
Google keyword search
is used to find information
|
Databases with
metadata are used to find information
|
9
|
Uses blogs, web applications, rich media and viral media
|
Uses drag and drop mashups and widgets
|
10
|
Focuses on Communities
|
Focuses on Individuals
|
11
|
Uses online knowledge community
that entails people tagging of content and its categorization
|
Uses content management systems
along with artificial intelligence
|
12
|
Facilitates
interaction between web users and sites
|
Interprets
information like humans and wisely produce and distribute useful content
customized to the requirements of users
|
13
|
Abundance
of information
|
Control
of information
|
14
|
Sharing Content
|
Consolidating Dynamic Content
|
15
|
The
key technologies developed during this stage of the Web include are Blogs (Blogger); Wikis
(Wikipedia); Social Bookmarking (del.icio.us); Social
Networks (Facebook, MySpace); Instant Messaging (Yahoo!, Google
Talk, AIM); Mash-ups; Auction Web sites (eBay); and Professional
Networking (Linked-in, Plaxo).
|
The
key technologies developed during this stage of the Web include are Ontologies (YAGO, DBPedia); Semantic
Searching; Thesauri and Taxonomies; Personal Intelligent Digital
Assistants; and
·
Knowledge
Bases.
|