Web 2.0 is a catchword for the new internet paradigm that is just starting to shaping the way you work and interact with information on the web.
Web 2.0 is not a specific software or some registered trademark of Microsoft or Google, but a buzzword describing a collection of approaches to using the net in new and very innovative ways.
Web 2.0 refers to technologies that allow data to become independent of the person who produced it or the site it originated on. It deals with how information can be broken up into units that flow freely from one site to another, often in ways the producer did not foresee or intend.
The Web 2.0 paradigm allows net users to pull information from a variety of sites simultaneously and deliver it on their own site to achieve new purposes.
But it is not a world of stealing others’ work or pirating information for one’s own gain. Instead, Web 2.0 is a product of the open-source, sharing notions the internet was founded on, and makes data more connected. This allows new information and business opportunities to be built upon the shoulders of the information that came before.
Web 2.0 lets data act as its own entity, which can be changed, altered or remixed by anyone for any specific purpose. When data is an entity, the net moves from a collection of websites to a true web of sites that can interact and process information collectively.
Web 2.0 is built on technologies like Ajax, a web development approach based on JavaScript and the XML programming language. This mix of technologies allows pages to function more like desktop-based applications rather than as old-fashioned static content pages as we have been used to find on the Web.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html
With Ajax-powered sites, users can interact with information inside individual pages as if they were using a software application, leaving the old web metaphor of a sequential navigation path among static web pages.
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Before web 2.0 was “born“, the second release of the web should have
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real existing web 2.0 is a couple of old technologies which apparently
caused just social mass phenomenon like facebook, youtube, twitter or
studiVZ. Tim Burners Lee's intention of the semantic web was to
interpret the kind of information by machines and to associate them for
web users. information on the web occurs in too many different kinds,
which makes it difficult or impossible to analyse all data. it was more
the technological evolution and a new generation of internet user who
brought a boost of information to the internet, rather than web 2.0
technologies. It is the same generation that types millions of words
into wikipedia, loads tons of videos into youtube and it is the same
generation that brings missing semantic links into the static content.
So it seems that we have already the semantic web, but not by automatic
content and information analyses. We have to keep in mind, that web 2.0
is not just a bunch of technologies, it is phenomenon, a spirit –
developed by humans. Web 2.0 is not developed by a guy with an
innovative mind, but developed by a generation of innovative minds which
grew up with the internet as matter of course.
Maik Dittrich, Application Developer, Mannheim, Germany
This is interesting to read about web 2.0. Have heard about this new version but have not researched it so is interesting to relation the explanations to a web site.
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