WEB 2.0

Definition of Web 2.0

"Web 2.0 is social, it’s open (or at least it should be), it’s letting go of control over your data, it’s mixing the global with the local. Web 2.0 is about new interfaces - new ways of searching and accessing Web content. And last but not least, Web 2.0 is a platform - and not just for developers to create web applications like Gmail and Flickr. The Web is a platform to build on for educators, media, politics, community, for virtually everyone in fact!
Web 2.0 is all of the above things - don’t let anyone tell you it’s one or the other definition.
Take a look at what the education community is doing with the Web, for example. They are not only starting to use the tools of Web 2.0 - blogs, wikis, podcasts, etc. They’re also adapting to a new generation of kids who are growing up on the Web, the so-called ‘Digital Natives’. The challenge for educators now and for the future is to learn and teach Internet literacy, converse and collaborate with their students using Web tools, and help our children make sense of the huge amounts of information and media that surround us.
Web 2.0 is about the people, when it comes down to it. So it has to be inclusive. The definitions of technologists, social scientists, web designers, philosophers, educators, business people, anybody - they all count". ZD Definition


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Twitter - 'Social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets'
Google Adsense - 'Fast way for website publishers of all sizes to display relevant, unobtrusive Google ads on their website's content pages'
Flickr - 'Is the earliest web 2.0 application and hosts images and videos, web services suite, and online community on its website platform'.
Bit Torrent - 'Is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol used for distributing large amounts of data'.
Napster - 'Controversial application that allows people to share music over the Internet without having to purchase their own copy on CD'.
Wikipedia - 'free, multilingual encyclopedia project operated by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation'.
Blogging - 'An abbreviated version of "weblog," which is a term used to describe web sites that maintain an ongoing chronicle of information'.
Tagging - 'In the same way you can stick labels on physical objects, you can use tags to label digital 'things' such as blog posts, photos, and web links'.