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Gartner Touts Web 2.0, Scoffs At Web 3.0

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the web-2.1.12.3-just-doesn't-have-quite-the-same-ring dept.

An anonymous reader writes to mention that even though Web 2.0 is just now starting to gain widespread acceptance, there are those who are already trying to hijack the term Web 3.0. According to Gartner, there are quite a few new technologies and incremental modifications to existing Web 2.0 technology, but nothing that could equal the level of fundamental change exhibited by the shift to Web 2.0.

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  1. Web 2.0? 3.0? by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

    Screw this. I'm waiting for Web 3.11 for Workgroups.

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  2. Re:Shif? by HBK-4G · · Score: 5, Funny

    Web 3.0 is muc faste becaus i drop extr letter. Paradig shif.

    Or maybe everything old is new again, and it's merely shorthand for the Web.

  3. Web 2.0 ? by sundru · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Anyone even know what Web 2.0 means?

    1. Re:Web 2.0 ? by psykocrime · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Anyone even know what Web 2.0 means?

      Loosely translated it means "vacuous buzzword that vendors slap on products, along with a fresh coat of paint, so they can sell the same old same old for more money; except in the case of vendors with new products, who slap 'web 2.0' on their products in an effort to be 'buzzword compliant;' or in the case of book, article and blog writers, it's a term they use to make themselves sound more sophisticated and 'in the know' than they really are."

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  4. Re:hype by dave420 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Web 2.0" doesn't mean anything. Google Maps is just a website. It uses javascript and iFrames to achieve something approaching an application. Those two pieces of technology have been around since HTML4 was first conceived.

  5. Web 2.0 hrmph! by ZwJGR · · Score: 5, Informative

    Bah, humbug!

    Web 2.0 is just another meaningless marketing term to describe a bunch of seemingly wonderful javascript, blog and wiki, pages, invented by redundant, marketing imbeciles, in order to hoodwink incompetent .com "company" managers.

    Anybody who declares their page as Web 3.0, (or even Web 2.0, for that matter), should have their page DRDoSd off of the internet. >:(

    Especially as these so called Web 2.0 pages are simply over-bloated, badly-designed, poorly-laid-out, standards-incompliant, overrated, over-hyped, excessively-resource-intensive, specimens of electronic refuse, often totally devoid of useful content, and consisting of enough images and poorly written code to electrically power a small town.

    Note how people who run frugal and efficient blogs, ajax pages, etc. NEVER refer to their page as Web 2.0, they are too wise to demean themselves so.

    For the sake of the internet, web designers, please don't either copy these "sites", or pay art drop-outs to design your website, as doing so, will lead to the spread of this miasmic "Web 2.0", clogging up our screens and the networks with redundant and meaningless trifle.

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  6. Re:Wrong Increment by s.bots · · Score: 5, Funny

    My Web goes to 11.0! No, no, you don't get it... IT GOES TO 11.0!!!!!!! Most just go to 10.0.