Saturday, August 7, 2010

What is Web 2.0?

We all use web2.0 websites in our daily Internet activities.

Examples of Web 2.0 include social-networking sites, blogs, wikis, video-sharing sites, hosted services, web applicationsallow users to do more than just retrieve information. We can build on the interactive Network, run software-applications through a browser.


Web 2.0 changed the trends of WWW technology and web design to
user-centered, enhance creativity, secure information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the web.


There are a few of successful and popular web2.0 websites:
Youtube.com, Wikipedia, the big article directories like the popular EzineArticles.com article directory, social bookmarking websites like digg.com or furl.com, wiki-based websites like wikihow.com where users can edit the contents of the website and the list of successful web2.0 websites go on and on.

A lot of people around the web claiming that web2.0 will soon go away. It's not that simple to create the next generation web2.0 website. A site has to be unique, innovative, creative, democratic…Read more…
                                A Comparision:  web 1.0 and web 2.0
Web 1.0

Web 2.0
DoubleClick
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Google AdSense
Ofoto
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Flickr
Akamai
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BitTorrent
mp3.com
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Napster
Britannica Online
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Wikipedia
personal websites
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blogging
evite
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upcoming.org and EVDB
domain name speculation
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search engine optimization
page views
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cost per click
screen scraping
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web services
publishing
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participation
content management systems
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wikis
directories (taxonomy)
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tagging ("folksonomy")
stickiness
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syndication

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