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What is Web 2.0?
According to Wikipedia - Web 2.0 refers to a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services — such as social-networking sites, wikis, and folksonomies — which aim to facilitate creativity, collaboration, and sharing between users. The term gained currency following the first O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in 2004. Although the term suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to any technical specifications, but to changes in the ways software developers and end-users use webs.
In a nutshell, the term Web 2.0 isn't a new version of the web, it's just a new way people are using it. Before you use to go online to just read about news, hobbies, or play games. Now, you go online to have discussions on topics you are an expert on, to voice your opinion, to meet other people in your field, in others words to collaborate with others all over the world. You can call it user generated content aka read/write web, that is Web 2.0.
Originally the Web (Web 1.0) was driven by organizations that pushed the content they thought users were interested in. Now the Web (Web 2.0) is driven by individuals who create their content based on their needs and allow others to contribute. Users now learn from each other more than ever, increases peer to peer learning. Good examples of Web 2.0 sites are YouTube, Wikipedia, del.icio.us, and Blogger.
Another important part of Web 2.0 is to harness the power of collective intelligence. Web 2.0 sites allow users to not only contribute, but to also rate, review, bookmark, and share the content with others. This way their sites get better the more people use it.
Good examples are Amazon and Netflix which allow users to rate the products/movies and their web sites also give you recommendations "Users who bought this item also bought .......".
Watch this video for a quick overview on Web 2.0.
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