What is Web 2.0's effect on the audience?

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What is Web 2.0's effect on the audience?
Web 2.0 is only about renaming and making “old thing” easier, not about “brand new thing!”.


Web 2.0 is about reading. Not everyone has blog, most people just read — see number of active and total accounts on, from LiveJournal.


Web 2.0 is about _company based_ communities. No matter how it’s called, most sites that provide Web 2.0 services are companies. Yes, they allow communities to form, but so did Yahoo when Blogging was not popular.{Blogs are homepages. Just as some people were regularly posting new pages via Frontpage (scream of terror), now some people regularly update their homepage via online form. Called “Blog”. Means “Homepage”. (see MySpace)}


Web 2.0 RSS is quickly goes the way of Portals. RSS feeds are aggregated. Special tools invented to group them and read in one place.


Web 2.0 Relies on web applications (mostly), which are happily used by “Web 1.0″ sites.





Web 1.0 had “keywords”, Web 2.0 calls it “tags”


Web 1.0 Aggregators did the job of Web 2.0 tool providers. Same idea, shifted focus (and if you want to include something from web 2.0 into your site/product you still need an adapter, allthough standard is nice to have)


Both web 1.0 and 2.0 now have benefit of cheaper hardware, so bandwidth costs become sizeable.


I see Web 2.0 as just improving to the next level from Web 1.0 and may be focusing to get more information and make money from us really....
Reply:Web 2.0 is one of those popular words / concepts that doesn't really have a conclusive definition.





I define the change known as Web 2.0 as a move from the browser (person) being passive to interactive. People can add content, redesign and add functionality to sites they don't control, share ideas with less barriers than ever.





In short, the power has passed from exclusively the web site, to being shared... to even being completely controlled by the user.





Examples of this:


Wikipedia - users write the content, not the site.


Greasemonkey %26amp; Stylish - users can redesign sites without the permission of the site owners. While the changes are limited to the user's computer, the changes can be shared!


Open Source - this is a type of software that has the code available to all. Anyone can change the code, and anyone can share their changes.