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I don't think the idea of a web 2.0 era, version, or set of technologies is very compelling. I do find the notion helpful for classifying user experience though.

I consider the most sophisticated apps today to be web 2.5 ("service web"): cross-site APIs/widgets and the resulting mashups.

And then web 2.0 ("social web") as single sites with readable/writeable content. Forums, social news, sharing sites.

Web 1.5 ("application web") as writeable sites. Webmail, instant messaging, site builders, search engines.

Web 1.0 ("document web") as single sites with solely readable content. Blogs, arcades, galleries, oldnews, papers, homepages.

When we integrate structured portable data, the social graph, cross-device interfaces, and decentralized identity, I think we'll have something to call web 3.0.

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