What Are Basic Web 2.0 Facts?

I know it is late but I am starting  discussions on Web 2.0. This is first one in te seriesDot com bubble was a very scary time for a lot of people. However, some survivors of the 2001 dot com bust insisted that the World Wide Web was more important than ever.

One of those was a man by the name of Tim O’Reilly. O’Reilly met with Dale Dougherty of Media Live International in 2004.

Out of that meeting the term ‘Web 2.0’ was born.

The definition that Tim O’Reilly gives for Web 2.0 is: “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.

Chief among those rules is  to build applications that harness network effects to get better the more people use them.”

Blogs, social bookmarking, wikis, podcasts and RSS feeds are just a few of the technologies that are helping to shape and direct Web 2.0.

The Web before the dot com crash is often referred to as Web 1.0 now but only since the coining of the term Web 2.0.

These are only a very few of the differences between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 but they are major ones.

You will notice, if you look carefully that the commonality of many of the differences between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 Web 2.0 is driven by users.

Once the websites that could be accessed on the Internet were built and controlled by only a few and were certainly not ‘interactive’.

But today anybody with an idea, a few dollars and just a little know-how can build a Web 2.0 website that is completely interactive and turn it into a money-making enterprise if they choose to.

The technology is there. It is easy to use. It is accessible and it is relatively cheap and mostly it is free.

In fact old model websites  are now adding features like blogs and forums and propelling themselves into the future of Internet commerce.

The Internet has always been and still is a platform for information but with Web 2.0 is has also become a platform for participation.

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