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What comes after Web 2.0

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Brandon W
, 07-20-2009 at 02:47 AM (839 Views)
Just for a little history first. Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft the Software Giant, once said that 1MB of RAM would be all we would ever need for a computer. If you look at todays newly released computers, most of them are being released with 2GB+ RAM. You will be very surprised to find a computer that is brand new with under 1GB of RAM installed on it. That's around 20 years later.

Just a few years ago, about 2002. My Dad went out and bought a 512MB USB which cost him AUD$80. Today, in 2009, you go out to your local computer show, maybe even a supermarket, you can buy a 2GB USB for AUD$12. As you can see, technology is growing very quickly. Back in 1990, I believe, the World Wide Web was released with only HTML.

Now if you look around at todays web technology you have CSS3, JavaScript, AJAX, PHP, ASP, Perl, Ruby, Python and you can even make CGI scripts in C++! With the release of all this great stuff what does come after Web 2.0?

Look back at the first websites on the WWW, they were plain and frankly quite boring. If you look around today at sites such as Google, it's simple and attractive but offers a great Web 2.0 tool. Look at Wikipedia, not the greatest looking site but look at what it offers. Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, all these social networking sites are Web 2.0! These aren't the only things that make up this amazing web, you can even find an alternative to Photoshop IN YOUR WEB BROWSER!

Looking around the other night at the Cappuccino Framework and Objective-J. What they have done is taken a application developing programming language, Objective-C and wrote a framework for it in JavaScript which can lead to amazing new Web apps. One for example is something similar to your Microsoft Powerpoint;
http://280slides.com/Editor/

The thing is it's free, you can access it anywhere you have the internet and best of all it offers great features that you would expect software to be written in programming languages like C++ and Java. You can even find an Operating System designed in Javascript for your web browser, well something similar.

With all this great technology coming out where can we go for the next version of the Web? Will it be called Web 3.0? What will it involve? What web apps could we find in this era of the web? When is it coming? Who is working on it?

All these questions are the questions that bug people like me all day every day. Where can we go? If Bill Gates once said that 1MB RAM would be enough, 20 years later modern day applications will not be able to run off this. So what we will expect 20 years later for the web?

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  1. WingedPanther's Avatar
    Personally, I think "Web 2.0" is just a marketing buzzword used to sell website that use JavaScript and PHP instead of Flash to do cool stuff. I remember the first web pages, where you could actually see a formatted page (1994 or so). Soon, keywords like "flash" and "blink" were added to make website really annoying.

    When VBScript first got added, people liked to do stupid stuff like have a bunch of text chase the mouse. It was cute and "cool", but quickly got annoying for visitores. Fortunately, that has pretty much quit.

    I think what makes "Web 2.0" is the realization that JavaScript allows people to do some truly powerful things. Especially with AJAX as a primary technique rather than an oddball quirky thing, people suddenly started to realize there was a LOT that could be done. Free databases and cheap hard drive space finish it out.

    I think "the cloud" is our web 3.0. It wasn't that long ago that everyone was talking about "software as a service", which is basically the same thing. The real key is to ask yourself, how can you tell whether a site is web 1.0 or 2.0? When did web 2.0 start? They're just buzzwords. The web is evolving. We know what we can do on the desktop, but browsers are letting us do more and more online
  2. Brandon W's Avatar
    In short reply to what you had just said, Web 2.0 is just a buzz word for the Web evolving. The reason it's evolving is because new technologies are being released which make the web more enjoyable and offer more efficient services.

    Hmmm I never really thought of the cloud when I was writing this blog... I haven't heard of anyone actually using the words Web 3.0 to describe the cloud but maybe "The Cloud" is the term of version 3 of the web revolution?

    In your last sentence, do you think Google Chrome OS will have a major impact on that?
  3. Jordan's Avatar
    I agree, we are moving towards cloud computing more and more every day. With that said, I think the next buzz word will be "Cloud Applications", perhaps? Cloud Computing is current a popular buzzword.
  4. Orjan's Avatar
    Sure, Cloud computing is knocking on the web-door.
    but as a small comment, c++ as cgi was there long before anyone heard of any CSS...
  5. Brandon W's Avatar
    What would Cloud Applications be? Isn't that what Cloud Computing is, well a sub-category of it?

    Oh, sorry Orjan I never knew about it till today hehe.
  6. WingedPanther's Avatar
    Right now, Chrome OS is just potential VaporWare I'm also not sure how different cloud computing is from remote data centers, for example.
  7. Brandon W's Avatar
    VaporWare?
  8. WingedPanther's Avatar
    VaporWare is software that is promised (like Duke Nukem Forever) that never seems to come into existence.
  9. Brandon W's Avatar
    Why do you say it is VaporWare then? Don't you think they will release it...
  10. WingedPanther's Avatar
    Google probably will. They already have Android. But, promises of new tech is not the same as having it.
  11. Brandon W's Avatar
    No it's not, the lead Google Engineer promises that there will be no Malware for their new OS. Absoulately no security issues yet they just had a security flaw in their browser...