Web 2.0

What is it?

• Web 2.0 is a word used to collectively group all the social contents the web is used for. This such as blogs, wikis, podcasts, RSS feeds etc were everyone can edit the information space.

• Web 2.0 is all about connecting people to people via these

feeds

The differences between web 1.0 and web 2.0

• Web 1.0 was about reading, Web 2.0 is about writing

• Web 1.0 was about companies, Web 2.0 is about communities

• Web 1.0 was about client-server, Web 2.0 is about peer to peer

• Web 1.0 was about HTML, Web 2.0 is about XML

• Web 1.0 was about home pages, Web 2.0 is about blogs

• Web 1.0 was about lectures, Web 2.0 is about conversation

• Web 1.0 was about advertising, Web 2.0 is about word of mouth

• Web 1.0 was about services sold over the web, Web 2.0 is about web services

From http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/archives/2006/05/web-10-vs-web-20.html accessed on 06/04/2011

• Google- the new Netscape

• One of the main pioneering movements of web 2.0

• Much of the 1.0 is – or was – Google Inc, the company.

• Yahoo had a web 2.0 revamp focusing on user submitted content

• Transformed from a search engine into a Web 2.0 people to people site with mail and chat

• Uses user submitted content

• Can be changed by the user

• Best known example of Wiki technology

• Arguably the first web 2.0 design

• First company to hit the web 2.0 decline

• 1.6 million make there living on eBay

• eBay is not a retailer, if it was it would be the 6th largest

• Uses Wiki, Ajax, blogging and tagging

• Uses collective intelligence by searching the web for results

• Allows face to face interaction

• Can talk using microphone to each other or use the keypad to type a message

• Can talk to more than one person in a conversation

• The most popular web 2.0 site• 400,000,000 unique monthly visitors• Broadcast yourself• Comment• Reply

• Blogger uses customised logos• You can comment • Leave videos

• With Ajax, web applications can retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behaviour of the existing page

• Ajax is a group of technologies

. a collection of packages or modules which allow developers to write Web applications

.Used by all the major web 2.0 users

PYTHON

• Everything is all over the place yet is easily accessible via web 2.0

ORGANIZED CHAOS

Collective intelligence

• WEB 2.0 REVOLVES AROUND YOU

The bad points

• O'Reilly says, "Web 2.0 is the network as platform, spanning all connected devices" That's what technicians call "hype instead of content." Or in plain olde Anglo-Saxon, "bullshit".

The good points

• Allows people to engage in internet rather than being consumers

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