First thing first: What is Web 2.0?
I think, it’s easier to understand Web 2.0 by compering it with Web 1.0 (also known as World Wide Web). As we’ve all known that the web 1.0 is a very large set of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet.
With a Web browser, one can view Web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them using hyperlinks. The World Wide Web enabled the spread of information over the Internet through an easy-to-use and flexible format.
Interesting! but we wanted more than spreading information! we want to share information, and we want to interact and collaborate with others on the internet. Those three words: share, interaction and collaboration are the mean keywords to Web 2.0. The question remains: what is web 2.0? According to wiki the word web 2.0 refers to:
“a perceived second generation of web development and design, that facilitates communication, secure information sharing, interoperability, and collaboration on the World Wide Web. Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities, hosted services, and applications such as social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies.”
Let’s take a look at this intro video, which demonstrates the evolution of web 1.0 to web 2.0 and what’s the web 2.0 really all about:
In sort, with web 2.0 we have now the ability to share information, to interact and collaborate with others on the internet, and more to come ….
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