Web 2.0 refers to websites that facilitate user interaction, collaboration, and user-generated content through features like blogs, social networking, and web-based applications. In contrast to passive viewing of pre-made content on Web 1.0 sites, Web 2.0 sites allow users to freely interact, share information, and contribute their own content. Popular examples of Web 2.0 tools include social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, blogs, podcasts, photo sharing sites like Flickr, and more collaborative platforms like Google Docs that enable dynamic and social experiences on the web.
2. What is web 2.0?
● The term Web 2.0 is commonly associated with
web applications that facilitate interactive
information sharing, interoperability, user-
centered design, and collaboration on the World
Wide Web.
● A Web 2.0 site gives its users the free choice to
interact or collaborate with each other in a social
media dialogue as creators of user-generated
content in a virtual community, in contrast to
websites where users are limited to the passive
viewing of content that was created for them.
4. History
● The term "Web 2.0" was coined in 1999 by
Darcy DiNucci, a consultant on electronic
information design.
● In 2004, the term began its rise in
popularity, and was define as “Web as
Platform”, where software applications are
built upon the Web as opposed to upon the
desktop.
5. Characteristics
● Web 2.0 websites provide the user with more
user-interface, software and storage facilities,
all through their browser
● “It's a participatory Web"
● Rich user experience, user participation,
dynamic content, web standards...
● openness, freedom and collective intelligence
6. Popular web 2.0 tools
● Blogs
● Podcasting
● RSS
● Social bookmarking
● Social networking
● Web-based applications