What is Web 2.0?

"Web 2.0" is a buzz phrase that refers to the World Wide Web after the dot-com bubble.

What is Web 2.0?
There is no specific definition for web2.0.


it is basically a new way of "living " and using the Internet.


It is a new working culture, people collaborating through concurrent work and sharing software.





Before this, individual can only download information from the net. Due to the implementation of AJAX technology and broadband services; individual can now uploading stuff to the net. With this extra capability, sharing knowledge and information through the net become possible. In fact, the yahoo! Answer platform we are sharing now is a good example for web2.0.
Reply:The term Web 2.0 refers to a second generation of services available on the World Wide Web that lets people collaborate and share information online. In contrast to the first generation, Web 2.0 gives users an experience closer to desktop applications than the traditional static Web pages. Web 2.0 applications often use a combination of techniques devised in the late 1990s, including public web service APIs (dating from 1998), Ajax (1998), and web syndication (1997). They often allow for mass publishing (web-based social software). The concept may include blogs and wikis.





The term was popularized by O'Reilly Media and MediaLive International as the name for a series of web development conferences that started in October 2004. CMP Media, which purchased MediaLive, claims the term as a service mark for live events, reserving exclusive use of the term for its own conferences.





Some members of the development community see Web 2.0 as an overly vague buzzword, incorporating whatever is newly popular on the Web (such as tags and podcasts), without having any fixed meaning.
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Reply:From the horse's mouth, so to speak ... (in this case Tim O'Reilly.)





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