Well, one way to see this is: As the web evolves with newer ways to interact and sharing content, we tend to see consider this is as a paradigm shift rather than just a linear growth. This may seem debatable as there is no such thing as Web 2.0 and Web 1.0 in reality, It is us who brand the web with different versions just to suit our lifestyle. Five years ago, we never knew about Facebook or Twitter and look at how it has consumed the web today. No one know what is going to happen in the next decade, but once it hits our life, we tend to get heavily influenced by such things; ergo the paradigm shift :)

What happens on the web is inevitable. With more and more content being shared on the Internet, it is pretty much apparent that we continue to see newer things emerge from the depths of our imagination. You may call this ‘trends’ or ‘evolution’, but it hardly matters to the digital world.

So, just like iPhone 3 evolves to iPhone 4, web also follows a similar nomination.

Thanks Felipe, for sharing your thoughts..

I mean, to me, there are design styles that evolves with time, web tools, approaches, but that’s it. It is like fashion in clothing, you can see it going back and forth in time and mixing styles in between, but there is no Clothing 2.0 or the like.

And then we have social networking, and social media marketing, etc. But you can’t call that Web 2.0 because not all webs will be or can be social or built for the user amusement and entertainment.

To coin a term like that you will have to consider that it affects and includes all the web, every single part of it, but it does not. It will have to be something that will stop you, almost physically, from going back to “Web 1.0″, or step ahead into the next one if you do not comply with certain requirement.

All this changes, I rather call it “web trends” and/or “web evolution”, but I refuse to give it a “version” and draw lines to divide what can be included within and what not.