Web 2.? in SA
// March 13th, 2007 // My Life
I just read another article which talks about the buzz, shiznitz of the web, Web 2.0. As I read it I come across the familiar terms and phrases:
authors of our own content, and connect and collaborate with communities
rich online experiences
Ref: Does Web 2.0 matter to your business? By: Gino Cosme
My questions are:
1. What is the significance of Web 2.0 in SA?
2. What will Web 3.0 be?
The article speaks of when broadband penetration increase in this country and how web 2.0 will take off in a big way in SA. So with SA being so far behind in terms of broadband penetration with roughly 9% of the country online, doesnt anyone think we just going to get left behind? Won’t the world have moved on by the time 30% of SA even logs onto geocities with a dial-up connection. I mean there are those sitting with 8meg lines in the UK for the pound equivalent of R200 a month.
Secondly what will web 3.0 hold for us? So now everyone has a cool little site, with 40 “friends” they havent spoken to since high school, a couple of mp3′s blaring and a couple of screensaver ad’s irritating everyone, what will be next? Do we just keep connecting and collaborating online? Will we not get tired of this so called rich internet experience? Is there such thing as information overload?
I do less and less work everyday because there is so much to read. Everyone now has a right to an opinion, and these opinions are making a difference online for sure. More and more people writing, more and more people acting on these opinions. The ability of for the man on the street to create content is a whole lot easier, but the ability to create interactive content is still left to online guru’s and programmers (like me yay). So with all these static content online, surely we will come to a point where it will be overload? What do you think?
