Web 2.0 The New Evolution of Everything We Now Know and Love - Prepare for a Serious Change!

I'll take you into the evolution of the internet from web 1.0 the original internet context, as the general populous has become used to it (over the past 10 years) and bring you nicely into web 2.0 a new term coined around the social networking boom.

Web 2.0 is changing how everything in the world is taking place, from business, to forging of personal relationships to commerce and beyond. Based on this information, I'll touch on what I believe web 3.0 will become to wet your appetite to the amazing future of interconnectivity.

The world is evolving into a big Intranet.. The term "internet" will become obsolete some day

Social networking is the bread and butter of the connectivity of all people to information in a seamless, useful, and valuable way. If you look at the evolution from phone to web 2.0 you will see the amazing changes are all happening with such grace and incredible speed that most people are on the ride but don't realize how fast the roller coaster is going, yet still scream with excitement as they integrate themselves into the matrix of exciting capabilities this is all bringing.

It's only a matter of time before we can physically teleport to the other side of the world. With the internet connecting all the brains of the world together more and more seamlessly, we will become as Tesla predicted "one big brain". Gravity and teleportation, moving on to off world travels will all become simple as anything else we've already learned, but it will come about with precision and incredible speeds that defy our imagination.

With everything becoming so integrated and convenient the internet is no longer a separate entity that we use to get connected; it's the very fabric that connects everything to everything else. As a species were becoming more and more connected resembling the religious theory of "The One", where by everything is only separate by its individual needs and wants but simultaneously connected to everything else.

The change is happening so fast that it's staggering that no ones seeing it as a major evolutionary step. Yet it's happening gradually enough to be comfortable. People don't like change but they don't realize their going through a major change right now! Just 25 years ago the entire world and the way it all worked was drastically different!!

Its just a matter of time before our Bluetooth headsets are set up so we can just say our friends name and be talking to them like they do on star trek with those badges (no dialing, no wait, just "jimmy you there" and he says back yes as if he's standing next to you.

Theirs power in networking and the world is becoming an amazing vehicle of creative expression and growth, were becoming one big social organism where by we were separated by a great gap before.

The social networking boom is exciting for many reasons, that I will discuss in this article but one of my favorite benefits to this boom is FREE services, free stuff, and FREE access to things that used to cost a lot of money.

Social networking is also changing people's perspective on information, how valuable their contribution really is and how much their just giving away their talent and contributions to companies who realize this value. People are becoming more aware of how to make money themselves by breaking out of the spell the commercial world has cast upon the desires and intoxicating services they have been offering.

The social networking boom is fueling commerce by converting word of mouth/eyes advertising into currency that allows many things we are used to paying for to become free yet because we use these services the companies creating them are making MORE money than ever before!

Some are even sharing the revenues with the members, others are not. People are starting to demand that they all do. This is what I believe will be web 2.0's evolution to Web 3.0. The rate of evolution that is happening with the web is staggering by the physical universes standards!

Let's touch here on what each of the web evolutions are, then I'll revisit these in more details below:

The internet evolution wasn't just an amazing transition of human potential it became a powerful tool of mental and spiritual enlightenment as people realized their abilities and potentials, creativity and more and started to exploit them in this arena. People now had a way to express themselves and reach for the skies like never before. The playing field was leveling in writing, arts, and expression and especially commerce and business.

The first stages of the internet were man kind learning to reach out, learning to network and learning to well.. Learn faster and more efficiently. This grew to become a variety of skills and skill sets, it was only a manner of time before people became proficient at this life style and would learn to synergize it with connectivity world wide. Today things that are possible that weren't before the net is staggering and exciting.

Web 0.0 Was the invention of the phone system. Bell had no idea what he'd spark in the human consciousness evolution when he created this stunning device.

Web 0.1 Was the invention of the cell Phone and wireless networking. Now the phone was much more and started to captivate people's attention toward interconnectivity wherever they were.

Web 0.2 Technically the television isn't the web but since the web took over cable technologies to propagate the internet and it's power to reach people directly via those interactive cable channels and a phone I'm going to say this was a next step in adding functionality to the web. Eventually the television and the web would become one entity and reached a lot of people. The television was actually one of the first types of internet where by certain interactive cable channels allowed users to call a phone number and control via a keypad menu (like phone tree's today) what was displayed in real time on the television set.

Web 0.3 The standard internet connection was born and people all around the world marveled in the new way to reach anyone through email and many other ways. When the internet was new people were stunned by its glamour and capabilities.

Many companies banked on this glamour and to pay for their infrastructures they sold services to people. In no time these services were paid for and now the same companies continued to offer services that today are now free, at a nominal cost to some pretty expensive membership sites with various services. As this evolved, web 1.0 was born and people were fully fixated on the power of the web and willing to pay for these amazing services.

Web 1.0 was the (consciousness awakening beyond the newness of the web from a commercial stand point) payment for services phase of the web. People paid to use really amazing membership sites that did everything from offer downloads of e-books to myspace type of activities (yes people used to pay for services that were like and actually a downgraded versions of "myspace").

Web 2.0 upgraded those services to free while simultaneously making them much more valuable services, utilizing the more lucrative advertising vehicles to pay for their product (the sites). The value was the meat in the trap to capture your intrigue and get you to become a "member" of the site so you'd come back over and over and thus advertisers loved the site due to the traffic it generated.

Google also ranked them higher because of the traffic. One of the major issues with membership sites was no one could link back to the pages, rather none could read the content unless they too became a member (other than the forum posts!!! Which is another hub).

This slowed down the rankings, the readership and in the end was more costly than giving it away free and reaping the benefits of traffic and a new product to sell.. Value/Service/Access.

Membership sites are a brilliant way to get someone addicted to their service as people love being a part of something.

Companies that used to charge for these "membership" sites access discovered that it is much more lucrative to stimulate advertiser's ads by generating huge rushes of traffic to their pages.

Google stimulated a monster of innovation with Adsense and an era was born. The way they made these services free and got the traffic to the sites was using a new concept called Social networking. I don't know if myspace invented it or just did it better than anyone else but they definitely paved the way for others to do it better. They showed the power of this new concept for sure. They did for social networking what eBay did for auction commerce!

What was truly amazing about myspace is that they preserved the "membership site" concept but made all but the creation and editing of the pages part of the site open to the public for traffic.

I'm sure other companies offered this but myspace was the first to leverage this power in an amazingly powerful way.. They ripped the new wound open with a vengeance and woke up the innovation of the social network!

Companies offered a valuable service to the user who was more than willing to use it, and a service that is perceived as valuable for several reasons: One being, before it was something you had to pay for another the superb high quality of the site. The very convenience and expression tools it employed is responsible for it incredible power to attract people like bugs to a bug zapper.. to quote the movie "A bugs life" as the bug flew into the bug light.. "It's so beautiful.. I can't help it!" ZAP.

To the user it's like getting free access to a club with free drinks, and the walls were paved with banner ads- so what?

People are getting excited about this concept, but as its evolving people are realizing that their generating A LOT of money for these sites and are getting nothing in return in comparison. Sure the site is great and useful but people are realizing that in this information age, their work, their interactions, their blogs, their "product" that's generating all that revenue for the site is valuable.

It's akin to people realizing as an employee their doing all the leg work and their boss is reaping all the money.. only on the web the user has more control over the money, their not just stuck because of their education or resources, anyone can switch the odds around with just a little work.

This scares the companies that used to bank on people's ignorance, but they knew this was coming and many prepared.. This is where the web 3.0 is going. You cannot stop progress but you can run along side it if your willing to change gears to compensate.

The companies that stay rigid will falter eventually. It's just a matter of the smaller newer concepts gaining ground, and when they do the bigger companies in order to survive will join the game to keep their market share (is that a pun? Because ironically to keep their market share they will have to share their market ($$$) revenue)

People aren't clueless like they were before when their wasn't an intense amount of information and easily accessible resources available. There are millions of companies that just offer these resources.. The internet sparked an entire new intangible revolution! This revolution is evident in the online world Second life where people are literally making money out of thin air.. Selling "Virtual" beers in a "Virtual" bar.. It's uncanny what people are willing to pay for!

Google opened a can of worms by offering such an amazing search engine and Adsense, which motivates people to both seek out and publish information to help others because they get paid to do so.

Their (the users') contribution is valuable and they deserve a piece of this financial pie. As the story goes, who will help me gather the grain, bake the bread and eat it.. Well people are helping to gather the grain and their not getting a slice of the bread and its making people feel taken advantage of.

People in short are saying "show me the money". This awareness was stimulated by a rush of innovative thinkers who took it upon themselves to build sites like myspace and services like greeting cards, but as a niche decided to share revenues with the users to build a loyal base of creative contributors, and to help their fellow man out.

New ways to get traffic also spawned some pay services such as picture sites offering people money to put their images in their sites with a click back to the site for a "larger" version of the picture which drove traffic to the site to look around. They pay per 1000 impressions so building a simple website and driving traffic to it (the user) can be a lucrative thing now (there are thousands of monetization vehicles)

In the information age the concept of baiting people with free services then not sharing the revenue is becoming clear much faster than before.

People come in and use them for a while then someone releases an article showing how much myspace is making off your expertly created sites and sites YOU maintain and make changes on every week (which makes Google love your page and sends more traffic to it, in turn earning the site more money that they aren't sharing with you), and you get shocked out of your hypnotic love affair with the site..

You feel used and taken advantage of.. you were tricked into becoming an employee of a firm making millions of dollars because of your contribution and yet you didn't get paid a dime for your efforts. What's more shocking is you did it all willingly and in your free time as if you were at work, all the while wondering why you were so broke, and how can you make more money, questions flooding your mind. Even your attempt to make money made these sites money as you wrote blogs to show people your other sites..

You read about the money being generated and think wait a minute.. That's not fair? For me it was the sale of myspace for a whopping 580,000,000 (580 Million!?) made me really question how much my addiction to updating my page was helping their bottom line while I sit here broke.

This spawned research for me into the many ways you can make money online and I uncovered amazing potentials.

Then a site like Yuwie comes along and says, (because now a stimulated market of people wanting justice are just standing there waiting for it) hey guys.. Come over to my site and I'll share revenue with you for using it! Stop letting myspace rip you off, our service is the same, hell it's better, and we'll pay you for your contribution.

At first I saw Yuwie as inferior but truth is they have a better site, its just catching up to myspace in functionalities. We get used to how a site feels and works, and until we become accustomed to a new sites feel it feels alien and not as useful.

The more you use Yuwie the more myspace seems limited. What I found fascinating is that I actually made money off of people I've never met, didn't show the service to (a friend I did invite invited people and 5 levels down that person made enough traffic that I got paid from THEIR work not mine or my friends! That's the power of networking!

I signed up and didn't do anything but add a few friends, I came back 3 months later and their was money in my account (not much but considering I made it doing absolutely nothing, it was other peoples work that generated it is really an amazing concept).

Yuwie is gaining over 3,000 new users a day, when I signed up their were 200,000 members and a month later theirs over 300,000 and growing at exponential rates.

People are broke and if they see an opportunity to make money doing what they are already doing, your dam right their going to take it! More and more the eyes of the public are opening and a consciousness shift is happening from gullible to monetizing their time and efforts.

There are becoming ways to get paid to do things you do already, with a simple shift in where you do it the money starts to roll in with no new effort. It's truly amazing where this is all going!

The old membership paid sites were banking on you in two ways:

Ironically the old companies that charged for memberships still ran ads inside the site! They used the same ads concept with paid sites and got paid twice, once by you the member, and again by the advertiser... You got double crossed! Your traffic and clicking on ads paid them and they made YOU pay them to do it...

The nerve huh? That's the perception now but back then this was a valid way of doing business, truth is everything had to be paid for, the infrastructures didn't exist and so your paying for a membership site back then that today thrives for free (we don't pay for them) was like paying more for a new technology when it comes out to cover research and development.

Thing is that the infrastructures are now in place and paying for them now is akin to paying high prices for old technology.. It's ridiculous, and why pay them when it should now be them sharing revenues due to our contribution being their very earning potential!

The concept of new and innovative services to most people is valuable, they want to use them because their stimulating, but we've been stimulated now and these concepts although cool are no longer enough to warrant our being a slave to their earning potential, we want our cut buddy.

I found it mildly entertaining that people are already trying to find ways to beat the odds and get more money. I started getting emails that said, hey just hit reply wait 3 seconds and hit send and we keep doing this for impression (how they pay you).

This sounds like someone scamming the system right? Not really, they are in business to serve new pages with fresh ads each refresh, they could care less if you do this because it just means more ads are put in front of you and thus more potential clicks! They've made what used to be "scamming the system" valid and money producing.. The name of this game is exposure of ads to more people!

Before you know it myspace is going to be faced with a dilemma... Pay its users something anything, or face controversy and ruin when everyone flees the scene for that paycheck all their friends are making. A social networking site makes nothing if it has no active users...

Myspace realizes this but are hanging in there as long as they can; it won't be until Yuwie gains such amazing popularity that myspace will start to feel the hit. As long as people continue to use myspace, their addiction AND Yuwie at the same time myspace will continue to thrive..

When the pay checks start rolling in the consciousness shift will happen and people will ONLY blog where they get paid for it. This will open more people's awareness to the other ways to "blog and get paid" such as hub pages format and many others. It's all gearing towards a new evolution of man, where money balances out and the general public shares the revenues of all those people's purchases and more.

Remember Netzero when it came out? It was one of many free internet services that came out. It failed miserably because they tried to pay for the internet by having you stare at ads instead of paying the monthly fees. This brought in (well was supposed to) more revenue than the 10.00 a month for service, but 56k being the norm this was an idea that ended up costing them money.

The concept was a good one but poorly executed but its coming back, in a fresh less annoying way. It will use a lot of the technologies we enjoy now in the new Web 2.0 era instead of ads, but this won't pay for internet service, it will pay for a service much more valuable to you. Cell Phone service!

How?

I bet you didn't realize a new form of cell phone connectivity is in the works (and has been for several years) did you? You know those wireless connections that allow you to "jack into the net" from Starbucks coffee houses and over 100,000 locations all over the United States? Do you know how they work?

They connect just exactly like your home cable modem or DSL modem. They are exactly the same deal, they use a Linksys wireless cable router (router of choice amongst most of them) just like yours at home, the only real difference is their internet is a very high rate connection like a T1, although some use just a regular 10 Mbps connection because how many people will be using it in a small coffee shop?

The internet café's work the same way as well but have several routers with several connections to the same T-1 or higher internet connection.

What's brilliant is that these routers can be networked to create a seamless Wi-Fi "G" internet just between each other, without the need to connect to the internet to propagate the signal. If you had several of these Wi-fi devices within the border ranges of each other they become a sort of internet.

Companies like the old P2P file sharing software Morpheus figured out that you could use these networks to relay cell phone traffic practically free! They started working on a service that uses IP Telephony technology and the routers of millions of locations; even homes that agree to share their bandwidth for pay is a potential use to broaden the spance of their reach.

You could be talking on your cell phone free someday because of this technology. I know you're thinking the cell phone companies wont let this happen right? Open your mind to the concept that cell phones are becoming as sophisticated as the home computer, a laptop in the palm of your hand. This will translate into advertising revenue and access to key multimedia areas of the net.

The internet becoming a part of the floating devices everywhere seamless is going to open a whole new market of making money that's much more lucrative than cell phone service plans.

As cell phones are actually making less money now because the pay by the minute is going to become obsolete soon the cell phone companies are looking to the future realistically and will be changing the way they do business.

Something we've always paid for will be free but it will be much more valuable to them to give us this service free due to the revenue generating superhighway that new cell phones will generate.

AOL internet service provider paved the way for this type of marketing when they realized that if more people were on broadband they would be able to sell a higher priced ad, almost a television ad in real time media, that would be worth more to them in revenue than the few bucks more they charge their users for broadband internet service as opposed to dial up.

So in an effort to convert every customer into a broadband user, hence potential dollar sign because their watching the ads makes them more money from the advertiser, they offered broadband service at the same exact rate as the customer's current dial up service. All they had to do was say switch me, no extra costs involved.

Ring Tone Ads?

I can feel a new cell phone revolution happening, where by you get paid to call your friends. I can see the five second commercial spot being integrated into the beginning of a call like how prepaid minutes uses this time to tell you how many minutes you have left for this call.

You will of course have a choice to turn it on and off but when its on you will get paid to listen to this ad, and people will get paid to make phone calls.. it's a new revolution on websites right now called Pay Per Play.

Pay Per Play pays you to serve a 5 second audio ad (a slogan really for taco bell or Pepsi or other major advertisers right now). You get paid on ALL traffic to your site.

If you generate 100,000 hits you get paid on 100,000 hits to your site. It's a 5 second ad, and it will become standard soon, people won't really be annoyed by it I don't think but it will move the television commercial revenue to the general public unlike ever before.

People are not watching commercials anymore so companies are opening up new vehicles for this that also pay the end user for the use of their site. You can join this revolution by signing up now here (link). For right now their letting sign ups sign others up and you get 5% of their sites revenue just for telling them about it...

They are pulling the referral revenue after they reach a certain threshold. People will only be able to sign up their site much like you do for Adsense.

The opportunity here is once your signed up you're a life time member and when no one else can refer people you can and you can make a substantial chunk of change telling others about the service. Can you imagine being paid to show people the Google Adsense program? Now you can tell people but you make nothing doing so..

I'm sure a bunch of people do get paid to do this but it's not open to the public. This PPP service for now is.. So get in before you realize it's too late. I JUMPED at this the second I read about it! It's like buying yahoo stock before yahoo was big and now realizing that was a good investment of your time and resources!

Web 3.0 I believe will be the evolution from free services to the demand that every service generating revenues from user input or creation of pages, or even uses of the service, share in the profits. It has been stemming out for a long time.

An example of the awareness is people wearing t-shirts with company logos on it for the free t-shirt but realized that their contribution as a walking billboard was making the company money and all they got was this free t-shirt!

This awareness was stimulated by the fashion industry and actors wearing brands to sell clothing for the company that made the clothing. Race car drivers do the same thing and both parties get paid, so why shouldn't the common person who's advertising for them?

A company came out that offered to pay your car payment if you plastered their advertising on your car (and required that you drove your car a lot.. so if you commute every day several hours your car payment was paid this way)..

Innovative ways to pay off your bills while offering advertisers more exposure are coming in buckets. We often feel that advertising is annoying but the new era makes these advertisements our salvation, our pay check, our free services (Like cell phone service, as I explain below, that's coming!).

This will actually upgrade the perception we have about advertisements. We will not see them as annoying as much as our paycheck source.. A new respect will make advertisements more popular and thus more effective, making us more money and the cycle continues in an upward spiral. This is an amazing new trend developing quite quickly and lucratively. It applies all the laws of giving and taking, cause and effect and so on.

Think getting paid to use a service is cool? How about getting paid to spend your money?!?! Talk about efficient financial sense!

I can see the world coming to a new and exciting format where by everyone is sharing in the pot. The beauty of web 3.0 is that spending makes as much money as it expends. I can see you getting paid to spend money too.. The credit card companies are already full force on this one..

You get paid 2% on all purchases, a refund just for using their card! Some are getting quite creative with it by creating a savings account for you and placing that 1% into it, so you don't even realize (or feel) that you're saving money.

Some don't release this money to you (so you don't abuse the program and spend it all) but tell you they will in a certain amount of time (years?) or when you close your account, so it's a great way to help people save painlessly, and reward them for their purchases. Its money they wouldn't have anyway so they can't argue with the policy, its simply free money.

This will definitely stimulate the economy and even out the wealth across the population of the world, generating eventually a more harmonious economic condition. Not everyone will get rich but more people will be able to sustain themselves moderately with innovative online concepts and interacting with sites that share revenues. What's next free rent for staring at ads all day? Lol I doubt that..

But don't underestimate the power of this format.. It's just a shift in awareness were not accustomed to. On star Trek the world was without financial means. We didn't use money anymore and the concept felt alien.. Of course when we interacted with the rest of the universe the money system was there but because of the lack of harmony in the groups due to the many differences in cultures. Money helps restore the balance this way but that will eventually also harmonize.

But back on earth they use the credit system and this content for cash system were using now that's still in its infancy will become the free rent and food of the future. The currency model is undergoing a major evolution and the barter system is slowly returning.

For now we barter time for money and the new system of writing articles for potential ad clicks (which is money) is the evolution of an old system. Things happen in stages.. The future looks quite interesting. The no money model (barter) is really starting to look appealing and make sense.

Its almost the same as when, as a people, we didn't have such a sophisticated job market, where job types were limited to a few trades and that was it, now theirs millions of trades and new ones everyday!

The concept of home based business will no longer be just a scam or some course you buy, but an actual plan that you can execute that offers value to sites and those sites thank you for making them money so they share it with you. It doesn't matter if they make more or the same, just the fact that they share makes it a great opportunity.

The Home Based Business is becoming a more evolved version of "Going to a job". As more technologies become apparent online the market of going to a job is becoming more limited. The new jobs will be in maintaining servers holding the money making software and the like.

Sites that allow you to write articles and share in revenue of Adsense ads are amazing too as they will always be there generating revenue, you just have to stick to writing a lot of timeless quality articles and the money will come.. It just takes patience.

This is one great thing about the internet, the permanent flow of new traffic who haven't seen your article, if you made it timeless it could be 20 years old and still a fresh idea to someone. It's good to splice in a few hot fad topics too as these draw a lot of attention to your timeless ads as well and keeps you fresh and excited too.

If you can just earn 2,000 a month in various ways you can spend more of your time figuring out ways to raise your bottom line, you wouldn't have to waste your time in a thankless and stressful job that doesn't appreciate you, drains you too much mentally and physically to even come up with a plan as you have to pass out so you can get up and do it all again. People stagnate this way so if you could earn enough to pay your bills at least you can better yourself.

You could actually spend time with the kids and making your own hours like all those infomercials promise.

As this web 2.0 and web 3.0 evolves I can see applying for a job being as hassle free as writing for hubpages and earning an income from writing. No job interview to sweat, no bosses to constantly have to impress, just pure work and pay. You try hard you get ahead.

Simple as that... no impressing someone who just don't give a crap about you. No building a business up just so they can let you go because now your making too much of their money.. You work hard, you learn things you apply skills you make money and the more you make the easier it is to monetize..

No ones going to fire you for making too much, because as you're making that much their always making a little bit more, so they welcome you making a lot!

As a society these new evolutions will spiritually and socially stimulate our very attitudes and shape our motivations in such a way as to make this world a better more exciting place. I see more people making money online than going to a job, unemployment rates will plummet, and failures will dissolve..

The phenomenon of losing a job and becoming a bum may even change as losing a job may just give someone an excuse to learn online commerce and revenue sharing technologies like Adsense, to make money doing something more "up their alley" like writing.

The beauty of these businesses are they are things you can start and manage in your free time, just an hour a day makes a tremendous difference.. You don't have to quit your day job to get it going and when it does reach the zenith of your jobs income well.. You may have to fire your boss.. And he thought you were trapped.

I see now day's people doing these things just as a security net, a back up plan, in a world where security is a myth, and job security doesn't really exist. Some start out doing it as a hobby or back up plan and end up making so much they quit that job and do this full time. Many millionaires were punched out of Adsense programs, and many more will come.

Hubpages gave me the opportunity I never thought I'd have... To write articles and make money doing it. People are finding more ways to make money doing things they love online than in the real world, which frees them up to actually have a life and be happy.

You can write at first just for the outlet then later you can learn to monetize those articles to make more money by driving more traffic, editing it to make it more search engine optimized (adding keywords, changing the way its written etc..) and learning how to get traffic to your site.

You can even leverage paying for traffic that will give you an ROI (return of investment) comparable to any other good investment. You pay this much and the traffic (targeted) buys this much and you make a profit even past your "advertising"..

Web 2.0 is both an amazing advertising vehicle and Illumination vehicle for social growth and interaction.

The synergy of socializing and Creative outlet. Let's break this thing open. I want to help you wrap your head around what this means to your future and the future growth of easy money venues.

Web 2.0 is an awareness that's stimulating people to become more and to connect more readily to others not only stimulates the economy of the world, both creatively, socially, and innovatively, but it creates a drastic level of interaction and connectivity that generates several advertising vehicles that are both less intrusive than say a television commercial and more innovative than say a television program for generating the audiences attention towards their advertisements.

In some ways actually when you create an ad on say Myspace or an article on hubpages, you can embed a movie, music video or news cast and in essence YOU the creator of the revenue building page get to choose what shows to air.. and commercial free for the visitor to your site.

I did this with several "Americas funniest videos" type of YouTube videos and made a hub on this to manifest a dream of mine to have my own TV program like this. It didn't have the impact of actually having the show but it was fun to build and fantasize anyway and it got a decent amount of traffic. I made a little money from my venture, which blew my mind.

One of the beautiful things about this boom also is that the advertising vehicles are NOT limited to the companies that make such pages, and services. Many sites have begun to share revenues with the participants of the site for creating valuable content that brings in the visitors to seeing the ads in the first place.

This concept is brilliant because it utilizes the creative power of millions of people and puts the work (but to the user the fun) on to some of the same people who'd become customers of other pages on the site.

By sharing revenue the site generates massive pages fueled by the very customers themselves and everyone makes money, motivating both the visitor and the company to help one another out in a synergistic fashion. It's a perpetually fueled undertaking and the potential is off the charts!

Web 3.0?

I'll start this out with a quote from a leading Web 3.o Developer:

"Web 3.0 will be driven by a new hybrid of innovation strategies that support a new business model. In the new models businesses will make quantum leaps because they will finally discover that fostering new ideas and empowering their employees by ethically compensating them for their intellectual property, makes more sense than the current business-as-usual rewards for hard work: pizza parties!

It will finally dawn on companies to spend more money supporting the flow of ideas than pouring down the drain with outrageous severance packages and counter productive levels of disparity in income." - Well said!

David Fleming Jr., Minneapolis, MN, USA

I believe this 3.0 vehicle is great as it motivates people more heavily to use the services and click into more ads and generate more "buzz" for the advertisers and in turn makes the site more money. That extra money will more than pay for the users cut of the profits and they will still make pretty much the same amount. The difference is everyone wins, no ones cheated out of their creative contributions and both sides are motivated to help one another.

This new social boom is creating amazing innovations in just about everything we know and love. Things are just getting more convenient and fun and not costing much more. This social boom is also not limiting itself to the internet, its all about the connectivity to your entire life and lifestyle.

Social networks are integrating not only great features to keep in touch and express yourself on your page, but their offering formats that allow you to jack into your site and connect it to others right from your cell phone. I actually never heard of myspace.com until someone showed me the site on their PDA type phone!

Your cell phone becomes your remote control for your page and your connectivity to your friends enhance drastically and more dynamically using multimedia which makes the entire experience glamorous.

To the user the advertisement is seamless, and expected, its actually less annoying than a TV commercial because if they choose to view the ad or look into the message of the ad they do so at their own will, they can finish reading the page or using the service and click it at their own discretion. TV commercials however interrupt the experience and thus are annoying, especially if the commercial doesn't entertain us.

Their focusing on the service not the ads but if they see an ad that catches their interest they click in and thus the fire is lit to pay for everyone else's free service. Free used to mean cheap, or introductory offer, and limited use. Now free means free, and with the motivations of making such vehicles free means the highest quality and best possible features they can come up with!

It's the publics amazement at the perceived value of such services being now free that gives it its power, and its power to trick them into becoming the content provider for the companies income producing site. It's bait and switch at its most basic level. Only the bait is fulfilling your social needs and the switch is not paying you for your valuable intellectual property contribution! They paid you once with the free access to the service but they continue to get paid for your work, why shouldnt you?

What's incredible about this format is that it motivates businesses to create incredible, high quality social vehicles that are valuable to the "customers" and because of their usefulness and quality to enrich these people's lives they use them with undying devotion, thanking the company profusely for allowing them to use them free of charge.

The companies' motives are revenue based, but with the revenue coming from ads placed in non-intrusive parts of their social sites and the sites features highly outweighing the fact that they have to see these ads placed on every page, the very format of the social vehicle is brilliant and accommodating to all.

We've become used to seeing Google ads usually just text ads and sometimes banner ads, and the way Google places relevant ads on the page makes the ads useful to a lot of people instead of a TV commercial they have to avoid. Even the new five second audio ads will become the norm. People wont get as annoyed at it as television commercials which completely remove your movie without your choice and force you to watch a commercial.

With the new five second ads you can just choose to turn off your speakers and the problem goes away. No interruption in service at all. You the site owner STILL get paid even if they turn their speakers off because they loaded the page it did play, you got to love that?

We all realize that it's the ads that pay for the service were using and so we weigh the benefits of the service against the intrusiveness of said ads to make a decision as to what were willing to put up with to use that service.

Myspace was the first to do this very strategically in a way that the very look and feel of the page makes the ads blend in nicely as if they were just another picture on the wall of our log in pages, picture pages, and blogs. The only exception is on our profile pages it is pretty obviously a banner but none the less it's still worth the payment of tolerance to have the entire rest of the profile AD free.

If an ad catches our attention its because its relevant to what were thinking about, if it's not we don't see it anyway. The minds focus will make an ad that answers a concern or question or need stand out as it will stick out like a sore thumb. This also makes it our choice to see/click it not a feeling of being "sold".

By giving people more vehicles to socialize and connect with others you also acquire a way to pool ideas and creative energies to innovate every corner of our existence collectively and that's very powerful. If two heads are more powerful than one then 8 billion has to be the apidemy of power.

The internet is evolving right before our very eyes, and this change is as drastic as the evolution from telephone to internet. The world is becoming more and more one incredible experience as were stimulated constantly. This stimulation is forcing us to become more ambitious, to learn faster and to expand our capacity to absorb more information and as a whole, to become much more than previous generations ever thought possible.

As we adapt to this new fast paced world known as "The Information age" we as a species are evolving out of limiting ourselves and growing into expanding our perceptions of what were truly capable of. This expands to but is not limited to, our beliefs in religion, capacity for learning/potential, earning potential and career potentials.

It's already apparent in all these areas as evolutions are happening all over the place in record numbers. The cause of all this stimulation is networking and the vehicle that started all of this wonderful networking connectivity is the internet.

We began the journey online as a way to expand what we knew, to connect in innovative ways to friends in chat rooms and we learned to express ourselves by building our online presence and expressions of who we are what we enjoy and internet dream boards to inspire others.

This evolved pretty quickly into much more than any of us realized it could be. Before long people started to find new uses for the internet to reach out and touch others hearts, and dating sites became popular.

Email was always a pretty popular way to keep in touch, but even email has become much more than it was. The next step in the evolution was to link all of these potentials into a single space and give the user a windows environment sort of feel to controlling their social networks.

Web 2.0 was born when Myspace and P2P (peer to peer) sites were formed. They became hugely popular because of their ability to give people amazing ways to express themselves in a digital format that rivaled how we do it in real life.

In real life we dress up, wear trendy clothing and pierce our body in many places, we drive a nice car, and have our charisma to link the whole shebang together. Online we have alternates to all of these things and they can be found in our Myspace account page, picture albums and blogs.

People found they could design their dreams into this site and people could see them for who they really were (or who they wished they were lol) and so a new personal power emerged. You could start a company with as much presence as a major corporation on 20.00 set up and a web page template (average of 50.00). The playing field was leveled with the advent of the internet and social networking only build on this powerful expression.

In much the same way we view our income generating concepts (jobs, royalties, revenue earning efforts) we will start to see the internet as a staple in our ability to function, build our future, and grow socially and in every other way.

The world is a much more resourceful place now that everything is connected. Were in the industrial age of the internet so to speak, and before long the lines that separate the internet from how we go about manifesting our dreams will become blurred in much the same way digital replaced analog ways of doing things previously.

The very format of "earning a living" is evolving as well thanks to the internet, and is not only making it easier and more exciting for people to love what they do and make more money, but its also causing an amazing infectious optimism and value to the world as a whole!

By dissolving the anxiety of working for a company that doesn't appreciate them or offer them an equal share of compensation to the work their willing to do, people are finding ways to really contribute their unique and valuable skill sets to the world, making everything more exciting and generating an amazing synergy of growth and innovation the world as a whole.

The internet is becoming more and more the liberation from the shackles of the previous world that was based on many limitations and controls that are dissolving right before our eyes, and scaring the bejesus out of the powers that used to maintain these things.

The internet definitely contributes to the amazing growth of our economy, our world's value and creative growth. It already seems this way to over 4 Billion people all over the globe, I know to me it is the very air I breathe sometimes.

With the girth of the internets amazing offerings it's no mystery why people become so addicted and have physical withdraws when they have to unplug from the matrix of amazing tools the internet provides. Everything from automated income producing sites built to display and share their creators' passions, to connectivity to people all over the globe for personal and business networking efforts.

You can even buy a refrigerator with an internet ready screen/TV on the door, See a demo of the actual screen program here: Demo which is convenient when you want a recipe to cook dinner with, and the internet has billions of such recipes available at your fingertips in seconds, easily from a Google search. You no longer need to have all those cook books clogging up your counter space...

You can save recipes directly to your refrigerator and find them with the ease of searching Google. No more spending hours looking through all your favorite recipes, you have billions if not trillions of recipes at your finger tips and you don't even have to store anything if you don't choose. You could however book mark bettycrocker.com if you like, or you can save specific recipes to your favorites complete with the page it was found on, pictures, videos on how to prepare them and all.

Boring cook books with pictures aren't much help for the novice cook, but now you can have the equivalent of Betty Crocker herself and the old school television cooking shows, the recipe and instructions and a plausible video right there in your kitchen. With this kind of power anyone can cook an amazing feast for their guests.

If your friends come over for dinner and absolutely must have the recipe you can email it to them right from the door panel in your kitchen, while you prepare dessert for your guests. You return to the table and let her know she has mail.. It's becoming an exciting world as we no longer have to waste so much time or procrastinate.

The new web 2.0 format emerging in heavy numbers is well on its way to converting the personal experience of life and the internet into one and the same. The internet is amazing in another way I've discovered.

The internet is the world's biggest recording device of life! Instead of just authors books, and movies projecting "based on a true story" and the newspapers writing history, the internet is allowing the world to record history in rich detail!

If our entire race fell to plague and we all died but the electricity continued to run to keep our servers and back ups going, any alien race that landed here could within months know everything we know, how we lived and have an incredibly rich account of who we were as a people!

Most people who own a cell phone never turn the device off. They simply plug it into the charger and leave it on, even when they don't want to be bothered (emergencies?). This is the first step in always available internet connectivity with their peers and family.

I suspect that the next thing on a cell phone advertisers will stimulate are the ring tones. Imagine paying for your phone bill by playing a ring tone of advertisement slogans. Just a five second blast but wouldn't that be a nice way to pay your bill? Your already bombarded with advertisements why not leverage it to your advantage.. Of course this wouldn't be possible till they could monitor your ring tone setting, which may be too intrusive but the concept is still there as a potential.

The internet when you think of it in its most basic state is just one computer connected or potentially connected (available to connect with just a ping) to another. A cell phone is such a device, a small not so sophisticated (but that's changing quickly) computer rendition that is open and ready to receive traffic pings like any website.

When your friend punches in your phone number (equivalent to a web sites IP address) and hits send your phone is "pinged" with a signal requesting a return ping (answering the call). When you answer the call the pings continue, unlike a website the pings are consistent with two way communication (although conferencing software does this the same way).

The cell phone was the first step in always on always available intranet connectivity with internet capabilities (others outside your peer group can contact you if they know your number). Then they added internet browsing capabilities and things got deeper.

Now you can buy a standard phone with full color full website viewing (not just limited formats but full html) and browsing, full Google search capabilities, just like on a computer or laptop and so computers just like phones are becoming unplugged. It's just a matter of time before computers no longer have the limitations they currently have. You can already watch TV, or switch like changing channels to computer mode and surf the web from your living rooms entertainment center. Dell introduced this amazing integration to the public at large with their media packages.

This eliminates the need for a separate room or space for your computer, of course many still have both because you may want to watch TV while you surf but with big screen TV's becoming the average household appliance you can actually do both by using half the screen as the 17" Television partition and the other as your internet connection.

New glasses have emerged that allow you to hook your computer to them as a screen that extends to a virtual 17' screen and can blend both television and computing into these glasses for both privacy and amazing quality in experience. One such set of glasses even converts in real time your internet and television experience to 3D!

The internet is going to become what the cell phone is today, a seamless network of communication that you simply don't think twice about and are so used to using it becomes a subconscious act like driving a car. You can't go anywhere today without at least one person having a cell phone.

Phone booths have practically disappeared everywhere because theirs no use for them. Home phones are no longer the norm as everyone is using their cell phone as their main line, because they no longer have to be home to receive their calls, no hassles.

A new revolution in home phone service however has emerged as some people are having trouble unplugging from the old concept, but an advanced service in home phone is still a better way to go.

Companies like Vonage offer a box you plug into your existing broadband service and what makes this truly an amazing concept is that you can take this box to anyone's house and plug it into their internet connection and when someone calls you it works as if it were plugged into your home, so even the home phone service is portable. Moving to a new house?

Just disconnect the box and plug it into your new internet service, no transfer needed, no calls to make to the phone company... its seamless. Course I don't see the point in paying 25.00 a month for this service when you can just get a cell phone with unlimited local and long distance calling for the same price.

Information is being propagated in staggering numbers into bulletins, blogs, and more. Instead of just email to one person it's being broadcasted to the world at large! More and more people are taking information that used to be private and posting it into bulletins and blogs instead of simply "telling a friend".

People want to tell "groups" instead of individuals about their life, their experiences and their triumphs, which changes the dynamics of everything when you really think about it.

It used to be that you did this for free too, and now with websites like hubpages, myspace and thousands of others, getting paid to tell it like it is becoming second nature. The internet brought about thousands more millionaires than was even possible 30 years ago, and the average person is starting to figure out ways to make money doing what they do anyway. It's almost as natural as saying, psst hey buddy... come here... I notice your breathing there... Huh? I notice your breathing... um yea... Duh? Tell you what.. How about I pay you every time you draw in air, the catch is when you breath out I want you to say this at least every 1000^th time you breath (hands you a slogan to say)..lol sounds funny but this kind of ridiculous thing is happening..

Myspace came on the scene several years ago and has exploded with users, a nice 300,000,000 to estimate. People loved the idea, wow a site with all this functionality, networking and wow I can customize it with movies, music and blogs, and all for free! People were amazed. Why?

Because when the net was new and until recently this stuff wasn't free. To use a service of this magnitude you usually had to pay a membership fee for the mere right to access such amazing fun. The internet has grown up though and is now an adolescent. Web 1.0 was a whole different animal.

When companies like net zero caught on to the concept of offering free internet service for the trade off of being able to leverage customers looking at ads and the advertisers paying them instead of the customers themselves (a practice that television has been doing since inception) the web became a whole different ball game.

The powerful concept of free services paid for by advertisers not the people enjoying them has become a standard practice these days, and it's evolving into incredible benefits for the users and powerful bank rolls for the companies with the foresight to jump into the ocean and take the initiative to offer such services!

Tom of myspace saw this all too clearly and is now resting on millions of dollars running a company he started in college as a hobby, sold to fox network for several million dollars and they kept him on staff, and why not? He's a visionary and will continue to make the site more amazing with time. Napster and Morpheus were also visionaries in this art form; they actually pioneered the P2P concept (peer to peer networking or computers networked to other computers over the net to supercharge the power of the internet).

What made these guys millions is now standard practice now known as Web 2.0. People marveled over the free services that were only made cool by the fact that they mimicked the old pay services, but now with Google Adsense and ad revenue becoming the standard web revenue earning potential everything is changing at an accelerated rate.

Building a site to draw traffic then placing ads on the pages to hopefully gain clicks from the visitors is as standard a way to earn a living online as going to a job and getting a pay check, or starting a business and selling a product.

You instead become the television version of the movie (your page chalked full of amazing content becomes the great TV show) and the ads the simultaneous version of a television commercial.

If you do everything right and in the beginning this was a nitch market to be able to make money in buckets this way, you can earn a hefty paycheck doing something as simple as offering free valuable insight into product reviews, blogging, or building a page about your passion and sharing it with the world at large.

Now its such a huge business (billions of dollars) that new markets opened up mimicking the infomercial industries, selling people on the concepts of earning money with monetization on your site, SEO (search engine optimization) tactics and a slue of other amazing tactics. What grabbed my attention was a year ago I was sitting in a doctors office waiting for my girlfriend to get her check up and picked up a magazine with a feature on the cover about Google.com.

The story of the companies amazing rise to fame from a dorm room program made by two college kids, to a multi-billion dollar empire that is helping people find information with amazing speed and quality yet also helps the world's average Joe's make a lot of money banking on their passions.

The story in particular that really opened my eyes was this kid, 15 years old using his parents Adsense account, built a page reviewing the latest gadgets. This kid barely in the 10th grade built a hobby site about his passion and was getting so much traffic to it he was clearing over 5,000 (five thousand) dollars a month just from his Google Adsense ads!

I found the article both a shocking eye opener to a new way of earning money I never thought of, sure I saw ads everywhere on every page but like everyone else I've seen them for years, they've become as benign as the TV commercial and just as expected, but to think that I could myself earn money like this blew my mind!

What was humorous was they mentioned he made more than his parents did at both their jobs combined! I started looking into this and am today writing articles like this on hubpages to earn so far pennies but the articles are always gaining traffic and traffic means clicks and clicks equals revenue.

As they stay on the site they continue to earn money but the trick to really leveraging this earning power is to learn all the tricks, from search engine optimization, to key words to formatting pages for optimal user/reader experience so your page becomes a valuable "product" for the search engines. You see Google is a company and they are selling a service, the service is bringing valuable and concise content to their users, saving them time and educating them easily on what ever it is they want to know.

Their quality of links in the search engine results are what made them so big, so the better your site follows the format of quality and value the higher you rank. You also have to be a popular page to get high rankings, which means you have to be linked to by other sites. Having a lot of what's called "link-backs" is valuable but having link-backs from specific sites can be more valuable than quantity of links, after all its quality not quantity that Google and other search engines want..

Some sites are designed to hone down using user feedback and flagging the best ads on their service for say blogs or hubs, so they develop a reputation for offering quality content and doing some of the leg work for Google spiders by indexing the best pages in the front of their site, so links from this site in primo positions makes your link back valuable and carries better weight.

Welcome to the new world... The old world is "coming to an end" so the people carrying the signs can stop now, we understand the world is coming to an end, but a new enlightened world is replacing it seamlessly.. ohhhhhh. Duh. Hope this was informative. Feedback/comments are always appreciated.