What the h*ll is WEB 2.0?

Somebody please define this for me. Is it an idea? Is it a belief?

What the h*ll is WEB 2.0?
There doesn't seem to be a consensus about what exactly that means. The term is pretty much technobabble in my opinion.





I've heard many definitions of the term Web 2.0 from different people. Some people use the term merely to describe the style of buttons with that reflection-gradient effect.





In reality, it's more like just poorly chosen name for the Internet business model that includes recent trends like user-driven content.
Reply:it's has many definitions.


From Wiki





Web 2.0 is a trend in World Wide Web technology, and web design, a second generation of web-based communities and hosted services such as social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies, which aim to facilitate creativity, information sharing, collaboration, and sharing among users. It is almost defined as the new era of the World Wide Web. The term became notable after the first O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in 2004.[2][3] 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. 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.[4] ”





Some technology experts, notably Tim Berners-Lee, have questioned whether one can use the term in a meaningful way, since many of the technology components of "Web 2.0" have existed since the early days of the Web.[5][6]
Reply:To be honest, it means different things to different people. To be very general, it's just a more professional and geeky way of saying "The New Internet". It's a buzz word. Following the dot com bust and the rapid expansion of broadband, the internet has changed quite a bit in the past several years. This changed or "new" version of web encompasses a lot of things. To narrow it to a few things, you can look at it this way...





- Broadband allows for more graphically appealing websites and more technically advanced websites and an influx of interactive media


- Consumer generated content dominates media


- More advanced technology allows for more advanced web applications





Those are the drivers of the New Internet; however, to different people it means different things. Designers think of Web 2.0 as the latest style--candy-like graphics, flexible layouts, the use of CSS over tables. Business people and marketers think of it as the influence and strength of Consumer Generated Content and Consumer Generated Media--users contributing to the content of websites in one form or another. Tech folks think of it as the advancement in programming languages, technology, and platforms--AJAX, open-source frameworks, etc.
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Reply:Web 2.0 is supposed to be a trend in the way that applications on the World Wide Web are changing and developing. Supposedly, the old-fashioned WWW was about individuals surfing around and doing their own thing (searching, shopping, researching). But Web 2.0 is about how people are interacting with each other through technologies like blogs, wikis, and social networking sites like Facebook.





So, on the old-fashioned Web, you might go to an online bookstore and buy a book. With the so-called Web 2.0, people contribute reviews and discussions on Amazon, and their collective activity helps to shape what books you decide to buy and read.





On the old-fashioned Web, you might use a search engine to look up a fact. With Web 2.0, Wikipedia is collectively written and edited by people all over the world. Yahoo Answers itself is an example of how this is supposed to work.





More Web technologies and new applications are written with the expectation that they'll encourage that kind of interaction between people (not just person to machine). And so people will point to some particular specification or protocol (like RSS or WSDL) and say that's Web 2.0 in action.





Does that make sense?
Reply:It's funny how no one knows, except copying from other sources like wiki and other places.





It's basically just an update for the web. New coding, html, css, different coding standards, faster internet, alot of little kinks and quirks what makes the WWW go round n round.