The term “Web 2.0″ is commonly associated with web applications which facilitate interactive information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design and collaboration on the World Wide Web. Examples of Web 2.0 include web-based communities, hosted services, web applications, social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, mashups and folksonomies.
A Web 2.0 site allows its users to interact with other users or to change website content, in contrast to non-interactive websites where users are limited to the passive viewing of information that is provided to them.
The term is closely associated with Tim O’Reilly because of the O’Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in 2004. Although the term suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to any technical specifications, but rather to cumulative changes in the ways software developers and end-users use the Web. Whether Web 2.0 is qualitatively different from prior web technologies has been challenged by World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee who called the term a “piece of jargon”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0
Going this way, by 2020 we will have Web v 200. at least. But because internet is so crowded, and there are more and more people involved, well to make it easy, there is a need to implement new terms to describe new complex processes. From that point of view it does make sense?
I understand IPv6 internet network you can call Internet V2, because it is huge step, but still it is same idea, just increasing the number of IP available by changing infrastructure to 128bits addressing.
Now we have times where SEO is not enough. Social Media is coming to action. That is bringing question probably we all are asking ourselves, what it’s going to be after Social Media? Super Hyper new technology or some brilliant idea of 6 years old genius from china? Or maybe people will get bored and will get back to stone age? Some extremists probably will, but I wouldn’t be so drastic in those predictions. As it evolving day by day, it’s not going to be so shocking to us, but one day you will stop, look back and say OMG…amazed how far we went with technology.
How it’s going to looks like? just look on one of the current futuristic movies like Surogati (Bruce Willis) or Gamer (Gerard Butler). Well maybe not tomorrow, but soon it will be possible. You can picture this perfectly, just try to watch one of the ‘futuristic’ movies made in 1980-1998 for example. Where they showing future of 2012, most of it it’s possible, but it is not getting our attention as people back then thought it will. It is so ordinary, so usual to us that we do not realize the progression. It will continue that way, and no one will wake up, because there will be nothing to wake up from, it will be reality as today is for us.