The world is becoming closer when it comes to communication, and communication is becoming even easier thanks to Web 2.0 and the internet. Networking is easier than ever now that the Web 2.0 standard is taking over website design and development and turning the web into a more maneuverable, easier to navigate, communication friendly and user friendly place.
The term Web 2.0 was originally coined by O’Reilly Media in 2003 as a way to emphasize a post-dot-com generation of services and sites that are using the web as their primary platform. Web 2.0 is essentially the new generation of the internet, coming complete with its very own set of principles for web based communities, social networking and hosted services existing solely for increased usability online. Web 2.0 is quickly vanquishing the internet that we used to know, because it is a flexible and usable concept that is quickly driving the focus of social communities everywhere.
Web 2.0 is an essential internet solution, giving the old internet a real shove on its side. Web 2.0 has fostered Wikis, file sharing, Podcasting, web logs, social book marking, RSS feeds, mash ups, image sharing, social networking, and a variety of other community style websites. The Web 2.0 revolution is changing the focus of web development, as businesses begin to look for ways to incorporate Web 2.0 standards into their own designs, creating web pages that are more user friendly, more community oriented, and more easy to use and navigate. These are the main principles behind the Web 2.0 concept, which is quickly sweeping the world and becoming the one topic that absolutely everyone wants to talk about.
This new generation of web development technology has become synonymous for cloverleaf information exchange, open communication and public communities, all of which are speaking to the nature of the marketplace which aims to service the needs of the end user through the use of creative web applications and community based networks.
Website developers who want to broaden their capabilities online should harness this Web 2.0 concept, because Web 2.0 is not a concept that is going away any time soon. This concept speaks to the needs of users by providing them with the community based content, social news, media sharing and content sharing applications that they need to better communicate with each other and the world. The more easy communication of these ideas becomes, the more powerful the Web 2.0 concept will become. Web 2.0 is the future of the internet, and website developers who want to continue growing with this industry will have to adopt the Web 2.0 concept as well.
In a nutshell, Web 2.0 is simply a holistic approach to internet communication, including content assimilation, messaging rules, rich and interactive applications, folksonomies, community based browsing, file and media sharing, and the implantation of information.
Tags: folksonomies, podcast, rss feeds, social bookmarking, web 2.0, wikis
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April 29th, 2008 at 7:41 am
Great article. I completely agree; Web 2.0 is the thing of the present and future. The sites are becoming more interactive these days and the ones which wont will fall behind the competition. You see more web developers use Ajax and Javascript being used these days.
April 29th, 2008 at 11:35 am
I love web2.0 and the way people now communicate through them. There was a time that the Internet seemed to be making people very insular but now there are so many ways of communcating. What I don’t like is marketers who see Web2.0 as the “next big thing” and try to use it to blatantly market without learning how to use it holistically as you described.
May 1st, 2008 at 8:09 pm
This is a very lucid piece on how internet technology converges with daily life to form Web 2.0. My only hope is that human wisdom will also catch up with technology; when are we oing to have an upgraded Human Version 2.0?
May 2nd, 2008 at 5:14 pm
@liowkc has nailed part of the issue we’ll face moving forward - with so much information uncovered, revealed and routed by technology, how do we mere mortals keep up?
Kathleen Brush, CMO over at WebTrends (who themselves uncover/reveal information from some of this data) is about to embark on a series of “Human 2.0″ upgrade seminars targeted at marketers who are dealing with the unleashed potential of Web 2.0.
Let’s get the word out together and let folks know they can sign up here.
Might be a good step forward toward “Human 2.0.”
May 2nd, 2008 at 7:17 pm
I had to laugh — there are many days when I think I definitely need at least a 2.0 body. But I do think that Web 2.0 is a great thing — getting us out of our little boxes and being able to see how more communication can help.
Some companies are looking at it as just another marketing opportunity but I think there’s really more to it than that.
May 3rd, 2008 at 8:25 pm
I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you.
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:24 pm
So that explains why new sites have these new capabilities like RSS feeds and multimedia features. The old web does not offer these things and I hope it would be developed further, enhancing it with tighter security features and make it more reliable and faster.
May 4th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Hm, fair enough. I thought previously that web2.0 was coined as the new design era, or is it that too? They all tie in together? (:
How would you say that a website ‘coins’ web2.0? Do you think it’s RSS, or communities, what are your personal feelings?
May 5th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Well I guess that I would have to agree with a few other people on here who have stated that the rest of the “real world” will still have to be able to keep up with what we have going on with Web 2.0 or it just will not do any one any good.
May 7th, 2008 at 6:40 am
I hope that they will stay around for another some years. IPv4 and IPv6 have lost their credibility and they have become incompetant with the arrival of web 2.0. Communication and interaction in networking is becoming more and more efficient and lets see the IEEE norms and standards in the future.
May 10th, 2008 at 5:09 am
I am presently using web 2 to get a lot of traffic that was hard to find just 2 to 3 years back. Even the search engines are recognizing many social networks as authority sites probably due to the constant stream of content they generate on so many diverse topics. It’s quite mind boggling to think of the advertising revenue that web 2 sites like youtube, myspace and facebook are earning and if someone chooses to ignore web 2 traffic, they are saying no to the future that has already arrived.
May 17th, 2008 at 9:31 am
Web 2.0 is such a good invention! It gives us so many new features and functionality we used to only dream about. Now we are living with the dream. Web 2.0 has made so many things easier to do which were much more difficult in the past. Web 2.0 is the future and it is developing quite well. I just hope it continues.
May 21st, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Focusing on web 2.0 is not always a good idea. If you want to make your mark in the blogoshere then sure, try to network and everything. But if you’re looking to make money, guys, focus on the rest of the population who don’t know much about blogging and making money online.