What is Web 2.0
Published September 28th, 2006
One answer is that Web 2.0 refers to the propensity of recent Internet applications to be more collaborative and provide for a richer user experience:
Web 1.0 was a Web site that looked like a brochure or a resume. Web 2.0 is a blog.
Web 1.0 was your newspaper’s classified ads — just “Webified.” Web 2.0 is eBay or craigslist.
Web 1.0 was Netscape — that is, here’s some software. Web 2.0 is Google there’s nothing to install, but it’s powerful.
Web 2.0 is about harnessing collective intelligence and eliminating the software release cycle — it’s about providing services, not products. It’s about trusting users as co-developers of content or even of technology. As an example, Amazon.com does this with its user review system.
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