Network, Community and Web 3.0

This week's discussion about the difference between community and network as pretty interesting for me. I puzzled over how to answer, but I couldn't think of anything meaningful to add to the discussion. I decided to simply Google "what is the different between community and network." The first result was this page.

The page simply says this:

The network aspect refers to the set of relationships, personal interactions, and connections among participants, viewed as a set of nodes and links, with its affordances for information flows and helpful linkages.

The community aspect refers to the development of a shared identity around a topic that represents a collective intention—however tacit and distributed—to steward a domain of knowledge and to sustain learning about it.

This struck me as a good example of Web 3.0. I asked a simple question into Google and I got the answer in the first result. I remember when I first started using search engines and careful attention was needed when phrasing searches. Now a question can easily be typed. I even made a typographical error when typing my query. I rarely correct my errors because I know Google will correct them for me!

After this, I did a Google search for Web 3.0 Examples. This video was the top result. Understanding what counts as Web 1.0 and Web 3.0 really helps me better understand what Web 2.0 encompasses.