Web 3.0

I wasn't in class on Tuesday to hear Paolo Mangiofico, so I might have missed a little, but reading these two articles about the new 3.0 internet was kind of a follow-up to what I was researching last week. One of the interesting things I read in the articles was how Web 3.0 has changed from 2.0 and 1.0 - from "read only" to "read-write" to "read-write-execute" (Wikipedia), and therefore becoming more user generated. Two other things I think that are cool to think about as future "prospects" of Web 3.0 are 3-D spaces, and how the internet is predicting the future with all of this information, which at the same time may not all be true, but nonetheless guides the creators on what people are looking for to enhance the internet. 

The first article that discussed the economic aspects of the web were interesting, because I always wonder how all of these sites such as Google and Facebook etc. can make so much money, when they are putting so much information and connections out there, but no one is paying. So even though these networks are the most popular things in the world, advertising and marketing still comes heavily into play. It's interesting that some of the companies don't even have business plans for their networks, they just execute the idea first and see how it goes and expands, and then figure out how to take it. It's almost as if we know anything we generate online now can make money, we just have to figure out how to cater it to what people want and then get the money from there.