Chapter 5 Impacts of the Next Generation of the Web

In this chapter, we take a look at various impacts that the next Web generation is likely to have or is having already, and we do so by following again the three dimensions of data, functionality, and socialization we have introduced as our fundamental “navigational space” for Web 2.0 at the end of Chapter 1. While that chapter has shown the evolution of the Web and its development over the years, and while the previous chapters have looked more into technological aspects behind all that, this chapter looks at the situation from the perspective of the individual user, from the perspective of a community of users, and from a business-oriented point of view. In particular, we discuss what impact ...

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