An Overview and Differentiation of the Evolutionary Steps of the Web X.Y Movement: The Web Before and Beyond 2.0

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Author(s): 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
Source title: Handbook of Research on Web 2.0, 3.0, and X.0: Technologies, Business, and Social Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): San Murugesan (Multimedia University, Malaysia & University of Western Sydney, Australia )
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-384-5.ch002

Keywords: Computer Science & IT / Information Science Reference / Semantic Web / Web Technologies

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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.

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