Monday 7 November 2011

Research: Web 2.0

What is Web 2.0? 
“The term Web 2.0 is associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web. A Web 2.0 site allows users to interact and collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as creators (prosumers) of user-generated content in a virtual community, in contrast to websites where users (consumers) are limited to the passive viewing of content that was created for them. Examples of Web 2.0 include social networking sites, blogs, wikis, video sharing sites, hosted services, web applications, mashups and folksonomies. The term is closely associated with Tim O'Reilly because of the O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in late 2004.[2][3] Although the term suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to any technical specification, but rather to cumulative changes in the ways software developers and end-users use the Web.” 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

In my own words:

A site that is web 2.0 lets the users be able to interact and work together with each other in a social media dialogues creators of user generated content in a virtual community. Here are some examples of web 2.0; social networking sites, blogs, wikis, video sharing sites.

Web 2.0 can be broken down into three parts:

Rich Internet application (RIA) — defines the experience brought from desktop to browser whether it is from a graphical point of view or usability point of view. Some buzzwords related to RIA are Ajax and Flash.
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) — is a key piece in Web 2.0, which defines how Web 2.0 applications expose their functionality so that other applications can leverage and integrate the functionality providing a set of much richer applications (Examples are: Feeds, RSS, Web Services, Mash-ups) 

Social Web — defines how Web 2.0 tends to interact much more with the end user and make the end-user an integral part.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0#Concepts

The social web is one of the important parts of Web 2.0, which is an essential way in which people communicate. There are a number of tools in which people can use so that they can share their perspectives, opinions, thoughts and experiences. Web 2.0 applications tend to interact much more with the end user. The end user is not only user of the application but it also a participant by:
- Podcasting
- Blogging
- Tagging
- Contributing to RSS
- Social bookmarking
- Social networking 

http://oreilly.com/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html
This chart shows one application or approach as Web 1.0 and another as Web 2.0. 
Above is a brainstorm which I made that shows examples of Web 2.0 Social Media.

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