What does web 2.0 and web 3.0 mean?

Web 2.0 is a trend in the Internet and in Web design that is considered as a second generation of web based communities. Web 2.0 also refers to the read-write web. This has been a very fruitful method since the users can also interact via a web 2.0 application. The users can not only contribute their own content, but can also comment on any specific content that is written by some other user. Web 2.0 has hosted some of the prestigious sites like wikis, blogs as well as some folksonomies. These are all social networking sites. The term web 2.0 owes its origin to the first O’Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference which was held in 2004. YouTube and MySpace which relies on the contribution of the users are apt examples of web 2.0 applications.

The term web 3.0 actually refers to the future of the World Wide Web. Web 3.0 application is something that is similar to ‘read-write-execute’ web. Web 3.0 application uses intelligent software. The function of this software is to utilize semantic data. Intelligent software has been utilized by many small scale companies for the purpose of data manipulation. But in the recent years, attempt has been made to make web 3.0 obtainable for general people as well. Web 3.0 is still in its development stage.

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