Web 2.0 is the more advanced form of the internet. As said by Tim O’Reilly, “If Netscape was the standard bearer for Web 1.0, Google is most certainly the standard bearer for Web 2.0.” Web 2.0 allows users to more than just retrieving information. The term describes a newer version of the World Wide Web, but is limited to updating technical specification. Instead, changes the way software developers and everyday people, use the web. Web 2.0 challenges Eric Schmidt’s slogan “Don’t fight the internet” and does exactly that. Web 2.0 also includes social enviornments used to generate, distribute, share and re-use contents. Making it that much easier for people to find exactly what they need, when they need. Aside from retrieving information, Web 2.0 can also use Web 1.0 as a platform which allowes users to run software entirely through a platform.
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I was also able to find that using “Web 2.0″ criteria on a website; the website would generate more hits, and more money due to the amount of traffic.
http://www.marketingcharts.com/direct/web-20-experience-on-93-of-marketers-to-do-lists-for-2008-3385/adobe-scene7-web-20-experience-measure-effectivenessjpg/
I like that slogan you used “Dont fight the internet”. Web 2.0 really allows us Web designers/developers to leverage data or content without the content management. It’s like the Website becomes a evolving reflection of it’s users. Cool stuff.
Brilliant analysis on the “more advanced” side of the concept; versus simply focusing on the interaction and visual aspects you chose to discuss the more developmental process of how the uses of interaction, itself, has grown.
Well put and great documented sources too.
The slogan just made me giggle for a moment. “Don’t fight the internet.” But that’s just my mind wondering at 2 AM. This post definitely does bring more into mind for me on web 2.0, knowing now that it’s “backwards compatible” having read it in your post makes more sense to me now than when I tried reading it in some of the websites. Wordings helped a lot.