From this post on ReadWriteWeb where Sramana Mitra talks about a formula for Web 3.0, yeah that’s right we haven’t had finished or gotten out of beta yet for Web 2.0, there is apparently a formula for it.
It goes something like this
3C = Content, Commerce, Community | 4th C = Context | P = Personalization | VS = Vertical Search
Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS)
The rational being that Web 3.0 will see a formula that addresses a whole set of needs of a consumer according to the context they are in.
I don’t entirely agree with that. So I did a little thinking of my own and came up with another formula that deals with real problems from a consumer point of view and from a marketer point of view.
If I was looking to buy something on the internet the most important thing for me to do is to pin point smack down exactly the Information I need to get what I need.
So I come up with the 4A’s that can be looked at both from a marketers and consumers point of view.
Avenue - Figure out what’s a legitimate Avenue for you to enter into for product movement as a marketer and find the consumer.
Assimilation of Information - As a marketer you gather Information from demand and as a consumer the Information is available to you.
Absorption - All this data needs to be absorbed, both from a marketers point of view as well as the consumer which brings in the last “A”
Abolition of negatives - Get rid of results that are not suited to you which would have already been narrowed down from all the three. If Abolition is not coherent then go back to Absorption and come back to Abolition over and over till…
you get to the “Z” which is the “Zeroing”, or fancily the “Zenith”, in on the required Information.
Hence the most important factor is the “I” the “Information”
So my formula ->
Web 3.0 = I
Calculating “I”
If I = 0 then
{Avenue + Assimilation + Absorption + Abolition of Negatives = Z}
If Z = 0 then
repeat
{Absorption + Abolition of Negatives}
till
I = Z
Just thinking outloud. Did I make any sense to you whatsoever?
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Marc on February 15th, 2007
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Nope, but then the first one barely made sense to me either. Might just be me
From what I get of the first one, I would tend to disagree somewhat but it’s written in fairly vague terms that broadly describe emerging trends. It’s likely to end up being true if interpreted later. That’s the beauty of language
vic on August 10th, 2007
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No one sat down one day and said, “Now let’s make Web 2.0.”
Instead, what makes up Web 2.0 are elements of Web usage that developed over time: a transition from the the Web page owner as the supplier of content to the user becoming content generators and the owner becoming more of a facillitator or moderator.