Web 2.0

Web 2.0 is an updated form of Web 1.0, not in terms of technicality but in terms of how people use the web, that occurred after the “bursting of the .com bubble” (O’Reilly Media). Web 2.0 involves interactive sharing of information, user-centered design, and collaboration Online. Dale Dougherty, O’Reilly Media VP, coined the term “Web 2.0” while brainstorming in October 2004 after noting that the Web was growing as a crucial part in people’s lives. New applications were arriving daily, which called for an updated Web. Web 2.0 is a service of web development conferences. Although people still think that the exact meaning of Web 2.0 is unsure, Web 2.0 is a more interactive Internet. O’Reilly Media felt that the World Wide Web was at a new beginning in the early 2000s, so the company knew that it was ready to advance to a second phase of the Web. Web 2.0 includes link logs, podcasts, wikis, and other web aspects that allow publishing at the click of a mouse. Web 2.0 is described as a “buzz word” that includes the new aspects of the Web.

For instance, Adsense is a new factor in Web 2.0 that reads a website and recommends ads for the site based on the site’s content. Google Maps and Flickr are also Web 2.0. Social-networking sites are an example of Web 2.0, as well as video-sharing sites, and hosted services. Users interact with each other and are able to update contact; an example of this is Wikipedia. Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, is skeptical of Web 2.0 because it categorizes itself with characteristics of the Web that Berners-Lee intended upon invention.

O’Reilly Media’s Brainstorming of Web 2.0:

-Stacy Matusik

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

http://oreilly.com/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsa5ZTRJQ5w