Sunday, November 11, 2007
web 2.0 phenomenon
web 2.0, what is this? you see and hear about this everywhere so what does it do? Web 2.0 Refers to a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services — such as social-networking sites, wikis and folksonomies — which aim to facilitate creativity, collaboration and sharing between users. The term gained currency following the first O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in 2004. Although the term suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to any technical specifications, but to changes in the ways software developers and end-users use webs. web 2.0 is just the better or newer way of some older versions on websites, like Britannica Online>Wikipedia,mp3.com-->Napster etc. the phrase "Web 2.0" hints at an improved form of the World Wide Web. Technologies such as blogs, social bookmarking, podcasts, RSS feeds and all other forms of many-to-many publishing, social software, web application programming interfaces (APIs), and online web services such as eBay and Gmail provide enhancements over read-only websites. the term web 2.0 was coined by Tim O Reilly He is the founder of O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) and a supporter of the free software and open source movements and is an American media company established by Tim O'Reilly that publishes books and web sites and produces conferences on computer technology topics. the whole phenomenon of web 2.0 is just the revolutionary change of the web which makes it more social and personal. matter of fact it is the new wave internet as it was made to do more intemate more for all people to connect.
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