After reading this week’s articles and web links, my immediate thoughts were focusing on the future direction of Web 2.0. I’m currently used several 2.0 features in my personal and education life. Blogging, Wiki’s, Forums, Collaboration, videos’… I am interested in what’s next! This seems to be an evolutional process. Web 1.0 being asynchronies or linear tools, to Web 2.0 being synchronous, dynamic tools. Web 3.0 being semantic; it seems to me that the evolution is going to be mobile, media, 3D graphic and haptic technologies. I don’t think you have to be a visionary to see the new direction of Web 3.0. The technologies are in development and starting to appear on the market. Your right, some of these new tools will be available by the time we graduate. We're out of dated and we haven't even completed our program 
Here’s 2 links on 3D Tactical technologies, very interesting:
- Blogging
- Wikis (webpage edited by anyone)
- Tagging and social bookmarking
- Multimedia sharing
- Audio blogging and podcasting
- RSS and syndication
- Newer Web 2.0 services and applications
I believe haptics is currently a niche application. It's not in Sir Tim's vision; I just believe this is going to be a future educational tool. It’s going to integrate with the 3D world tools like second life, etc. It’s too early to tell how far this technology will evolve into mainstream education. It will probably start in the gaming world first then find a place in education. Just my thoughts!
This idea of Meta tagging your work for the average person is not easy. I think if you ask the average person what a Meta tag is and what it’s used for, you will probably get a variety of answers. I believe for Meta tagging to work, they will have to create an incentive for people to tag their own content. Otherwise, what's in it for the individual One possible solution could be, creating intelligent bots that do the work for us. This technology is already available and will probably be the way it evolves.
Just a prediction
| Web 1.0 | Web 2.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| DoubleClick | --> | Google AdSense |
| Ofoto | --> | Flickr |
| Akamai | --> | BitTorrent |
| mp3.com | --> | Napster |
| Britannica Online | --> | Wikipedia |
| personal websites | --> | blogging |
| evite | --> | upcoming.org and EVDB |
| domain name speculation | --> | search engine optimization |
| page views | --> | cost per click |
| screen scraping | --> | web services |
| publishing | --> | participation |
| content management systems | --> | wikis |
| directories (taxonomy) | --> | tagging ("folksonomy") |
| stickiness | --> | syndication |