What is web 2.0?

Web 2.0 represents the new direction of the Web is moving towards a new direction. From simply being an information resource, the Internet is becoming a user-centric platform focused on the needs of users.





The Web is becoming deeply collaborative, allowing people to work simultaneously on the same tasks at the same time (example is project collaboration application such as BaseCamp). Many of the new success stories are riding on the powers of social networking (think the very popular MySpace.com); while others rely on user-driven content to create useful resources (great example is Wikipedia). The New Web has turned instant messaging into a crude application with the more powerful instant-voice-messaging and instant-video-messaging applications (Skype is a perfect example). It also allows for getting content here and there and mixing-and-matching them into unique content (Technorati puts together blogs and feeds in one easy to search site).





Go2Web20.net http://www.go2web20.net/ has a list of all the Web 2.0 companies today

What is web 2.0?
Web 2.0 is a buzzword which I guess means any novel web technologies, e.g. AJAX, site tagging.... See http://www.shadows.com
Reply:Web 2.0 is a phrase coined by O'Reilly Media in 2004 to refer to a supposed second-generation of Internet-based services that let people collaborate and share information online in new ways