What are the top new features of web eleventy? Let’s chronicle the internet’s major releases before diving into the future of the web.
Web 2.0 is alleged to be the social, user-centric internet, or something to that effect, and the phrase has been doing the rounds since 2004.
Web 3.0 is the semantic web, if you follow the version numbering nonsense. I tend to agree with John Mell – I hate the idea that you can paint a “dot o” on something and make it sound much more technical and precise. That notion was ‘so 2003′, a phrase itself which is dated and annoying to everyone but me. ‘That’s so 10 minutes ago dot com’ is another one perhaps only I like.
So it doesn’t take a Tim Berners-Lee or a web rocket scientist to figure that you can just make the first number before the dot bigger and declare that you’ve leap-frogged the competition. So if you check out the chart of web sites containing the major release numbers, you can see that the big “dot oh” versions get the most bang for your dub-dub-dub. Does anyone even say that any more?
Little known fact: I was a semantic skills instructor for LogicU back in the day. So don’t talk to me about Web 3.0 like you’re some kind of Lady Gaga web-o-phile.
Life beings after 4.0. Seth Godin describes the fourth one quite well. What he doesn’t allude to is that on a US keyboard, the 4 key also doubles as the $ key. ‘Nuff said.
After that, the versions and their meanings are fair game for any one of the 72 billion bloggers on planet earth. For all the summary and bullet-list junkies here’s what to expect from your new internet:
- Less logging in, silly password reminders, rep
Track ball got a funky colour? Get your hands off my NIDs etitive workflow around losing your password. Better identity management so that the site can tell it’s the same you as the you you were last time, and you can still pretend to be Mrs. Miggins.
- It just works. None of this “can’t upload a video to facebook from your iPhone” nonsense. It maybe that you have to pay to subscribe to this It Works Web (IWW) so that someone can figure out for you which parts of the tree of knowledge should long ago have been pruned. Note, the free version of the web will still be available (Web That Fails – WTF) which will still have links to the Google Adsense Referral system which died long ago.
- All of your enemies are on it. And so are your friends. Don’t worry though. In the same way that you left the small Leicestershire village you grew up in and don’t see the corner shop owner walking down the street any more, you won’t bump into your enemies so much, as you’ll surf different parts of the web tide.
- New tools and useful sites will all be assimilated and you will use them without even noticing. You won’t have to sign in to a site to edit PDFs, you’ll just do it.
- Designed for New Interaction Devices (NIDs). Is anyone out there still using a mouse (so last decade). The track-and-field-ball and keyboards of today will at long last be replaced, and everything will stop being so tediously 2D.
I think it’s going to be a good year for Web Eleventy, and we’ll see some small reviews urging us to buy more big stuff on the new medium. Don’t forget, the message was the medium. Now we are the message.