What is WEB 2.0?

Does this just refer to the world wide web? What does the "2.0" stand for?

What is WEB 2.0?
Web 2.0, a phrase coined by O'Reilly Media in 2003 [1] and popularized by the first Web 2.0 conference in 2004,[1] refers to a perceived second-generation of Web based communities and hosted services such as social networking sites, wikis and folksonomies that facilitate collaboration and sharing between users. O'Reilly Media titled a series of conferences around the phrase, and it has since become widely adopted.





Though the term suggests a new version of the Web, it does not refer to an update to World Wide Web technical specifications, but to changes in the ways systems developers have used the web platform. According to Tim O'Reilly, "Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform."








Generally its a method or the group of technologies, that are totally varied that offers you higher level of intractivity for your day to day internet usage. and all those new companies out there.
Reply:Web 2.0 consists of things like content management systems, blogs, wikis, AJAX scripts, and communities such as youtube.
Reply:In my opinion, it is nothing new. It's just programmer's desperate way to fight against the too cold, futuristic, technical, and (most important) abusive flash design from nauseated graphic designers.