Web 3.5 services will be fully pervasive, interactive, and autonomous agents considering the personal context based on advanced semantic technologies supporting reasoning and basic AI that might bring the virtual and the real world closer together. Examples might be 3D-enhanced virtual social networks, natural-language services, or fully interactive real-life environments (e.g., RFID, ambient sensors).
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An Overview and Differentiation of the Evolutionary Steps of the Web X.Y Movement: The Web Before and Beyond 2.0
Sebastian Weber (Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE), Germany) and Jörg Rech (Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE), Germany)
Copyright: © 2010
|Pages: 28
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-384-5.ch002
Abstract
Web 2.0 is a popular term used to describe a class of Web applications that offers mostly free services to its users. However, an exact definition of the concepts, features, and technologies that argue for a Web 2.0 service is still missing. Similarly, terms such as Web 3.0, Web 4.0, or Web 2.5 also have no clear and unambiguous definitions. This chapter reports the results of a Web and literature survey about Web X.Y concepts. Based on several definitions, we synthesized new definitions for Web X.Y, which provide an overview and can be used for differentiation, and we classified contemporary Web services (e.g., Flickr) according to these definitions.