Web 2.0 Is The New Hype (Mike Paetzold)
Sep 10, 2009
Web 2.0 refers to interactive web design and development. Web-based communities, web applications, video-sharing sites, hosted services, social-networking sites, mashups, blogs, folksonomies, and wikis are just some examples of web 2.0. These sites allow users to interact with other users and change or customize the content of the site. In short, web 2.0 refers to interactive sites.
During the Internet's infancy, web pages and browsers were basically images and texts with links. Now, you can interact with other users in almost real time. Social networks like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Multiply, Friendster, and so on, allow you to modify the look of your own page. You can design your own profile page. Sites like Wikipedia allow you to modify the content of their pages. You have total freedom to do whatever you want as long as it is within the bounds of the user agreement. That is what web 2.0 refers to.
Users can now do more than just retrieve information on web 2.0 websites. Users can now run software-application through web browsers. They can now own and take control of data on a web 2.0 site. Web 2.0 sites differ from traditional sites that limit users to just viewing information, giving the owner of the website the sole responsibility of changing the content found in that particular site. Most web 2.0 sites offer user-friendly interface that makes the user feel adequate and in control over his or her own page.
The concept of web-as-participation-platform sums up many of web 2.0's distinctiveness, while web-as-information-source captures web 1.0. User participation, dynamic content, rich user experience, scalability, web standards, metadata, freedom, openness, and collective intelligence are among the characteristics of web 2.0 that may also be seen as crucial aspects.
The occasional complexity and gradually evolving technology infrastructure of web 2.0 may comprise of the following: server-software, messaging-protocols, various client-applications, content-syndication, and standards-oriented browsers with plug-ins and extensions. The conflicting but corresponding styles of those fundamentals present the web 2.0 sites with information storage, broadcasting challenges and competence that goes beyond the traditional web-browsing experience.
Andrew McAfee used an acronym to refer to features and techniques that are included in a web 2.0 website. The acronym SLATES basically means Search, Links, Authoring, Tags, Extensions, and Signals. These are the most common features that you will find in a web 2.0 website. Keyword search, links to other relevant topics, the ability to create or update content, categorized content, powerful algorithms, and the use of RSS to notify users of content changes.
That is the power of web 2.0.
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