What Web.2.0 really is?

Web 2.0


An umbrella term for the second wave of the World Wide Web, which was coined by O'Reilly Media (www.oreilly.com) and CMP Media (www.cmp.com) in their 2004 and subsequent conferences on the subject. Sometimes called the "New Internet," Web 2.0 is not a specific technology; rather, it refers to two major paradigm shifts. The one most often touted is "user-generated content," which relates more to individuals. The second, which is equally significant, but more related to business, is "thin client computing."





Web 2.0, a phrase coined by O'Reilly Media in 2003 and popularized by the first Web 2.0 conference in 2004, 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."





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 beginnings of the World Wide Web.





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What Web.2.0 really is?
Right now it's mostly a whole lot of hype.
Reply:In short Web 2 Standard Comparises





1. Wikis - These are those websites with provides facilty to edit their contents by the user/visitor of the website


e:g- famous website


http://www.wikipedia.com


2. MeshUp's - They are those websites provides contents of many other websites including audio, video, webservices, maps etc at real time


e:g- Google's famous Igoogle


3. Blogs


4. AJAX


5. Bookmarking %26amp; Tagging


6. Sharing(Audio, Video, Books, Pic, Software)


7. E-commerce payment(PayPal)


8. XML-RSS


9. Social Networking Sites


and many more......





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Reply:Web 2.0 refers to a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services — such as social-networking sites, wikis and folksonomies — which aim to facilitate collaboration and sharing between users. The term became popular following the first O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in 2004,[1][2] and has since become widely used. . . .
Reply:Here is what Wikipedia has to say about it


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0





It is more then just hype. It is The waves of the future for the entire internet.
Reply:web 2.0, although it may sound like a real bummer of a software program, is really the ongoing generation of internet servers, sites, etc.


the concept is a bit like the 1g , 2 g and 3g 's of the cell phone world....its all got to do with capabilities and technical advances.