eCommerce and Web 2.0
In today’s competitive electronic business world, new trends in eCommerce have emerged in order to keep up with advances in technology. The latest technology which has been getting a lot of attention lately is Web 2.0; the idea that a second generation Web is developing. However there is a controversy about what does Web 2.0 mean, and people are divided about the idea of Web 2.0, for some it is a mere marketing buzzword, and others describe as the new technological rovolution to the Web.
People now are talking about Web 3.0, and once Google CEO Eric Schmidt was at the Seoul Digital Forum and he was asked by an audience member to define Web 3.0, he answered by saying “while Web 2.0 was based on Ajax, Web 3.0 will be “applications that are pieced together” – with the characteristics that the apps are relatively small, the data is in the cloud, the apps can run on any device (PC or mobile), the apps are very fast and very customizable, and are distributed virally (social networks, email, etc)”. And the trend now on the Web has been going just in the same direction that Google CEO has described on the 30th of May, 2007 at the Seoul Digital Forum.
Web 2.0 is merely a term to describe the progressive online movement to make things more accessable and progressive, so whether you call it 3.0 4.0 or 300.0 it does not make a difference it’s term to describe internet “Progressiveness”