The document discusses the evolution of the World Wide Web from Web 1.0 to the current Web 2.0 and possibilities for Web 3.0. Web 1.0 allowed only passive viewing of static websites, while Web 2.0 enabled user-generated content and social interaction on sites like Facebook and YouTube. Web 3.0 may involve autonomous agents that tailor information to individual users based on their search behaviors. The document suggests magazines of the future could become more like interactive apps that deliver personalized articles and comments to readers in real-time, saving publishers costs while giving audiences more control over their experience.

1. Web 2.0 and the
future of
magazines

2. Web 1.0
When the internet started it was all just about getting information and
getting it to the world.
Web 1.0 was an early stage of the world wide web.
All you could do was look at websites but you couldn’t contribute anything.
It was more passive then it is nowadays.
The websites weren't always on date, because the only one to update was the
webmaster.
Technologically, Web 1.0 concentrated on presenting, not creating so that
user-generated content was not available.

3. Web 2.0
Web 2.0 was coined in 1999 to describe web sites that use technology beyond the
static pages of early web sites.
Although Web 2.0 suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer
to an update to any technical specification, but rather to cumulative changes in the
ways software developers and end-users use the Web.
A Web 2.0 site may allow users to interact and collaborate with each other in a
social media dialogue as creators of user-generated content in a virtual
community, in contrast to websites where people are limited to the passive
viewing of content. Examples of Web 2.0 include social networking
sites, blogs, wikis, video sharing sites and hosted services web applications.
Web 2.0 is more interactive, more up to date and much faster then Web 1.0.
Best examples for Web 2.0 are Facebook, twitter, YouTube, etc.

4. Web 3.0 ?
Definitions of Web 3.0 vary greatly. Here are some:
• Focusing on the computer elements, Web 3.0 is where "the computer is generating new
information", rather than humans.
• Web 3.0 is the return of experts and authorities to the Web. For example, Bertelsmann's
deal with the German Wikipedia to produce an edited print version of that encyclopaedia.
• Web 3.0 is the first-generation Metaverse (convergence of the virtual and physical world),
a web development layer that includes TV-quality open video, 3D simulations, augmented
reality, human-constructed semantic standards, and pervasive broadband, wireless, and
sensors.
• Many Internet experts believe that, Web 3.0 will enable the use of autonomous agents to
perform some tasks for the user. Rather than having search engines gear towards your
keywords, the search engines will gear towards the user. By looking at his search
behaviours and habits. In this way the user will be provided with information by the
computer.
All in all web 3.0 has more to do with expanding 2.0 with the help of technology.

5. How does this affect the future
of magazines.
It would be very likely that this might happen to magazines as well.
Instead of just given information and not always being up to date ( if it is a
monthly issue ), magazines will be more interactive, faster and more individual.
For example instead of buying magazines at a shop, you will have an app on your
mobile/tablet which will give you the articles at once. And you will be able to
comment or read the comments ( just like Facebook ). Furthermore you will only
get the articles which you are interested in, by the help of Web 3.0.
This would be good for audience and publisher. The audience gets the news they
want as fast as possible and see what other people think, say what they think,
share it with friends or save it as a screenshot, if they want to keep it.
The publisher doesn’t need to print of anything or deliver anything, so they save
money and need less equipment an staff.
They will probably make money through selling the app and advertisement.