What is Web 2.0
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Web 2.0 .. This has been buzz word in the Internet industry for a couple of years now. Said to be the promising future of the Net, I was really wondering what this was around an year ago. Was this some new kind of technology.. Weird thoughts sprung on me that this might be something like a new language or HTML tags and structure completely changed.. Web 2.0 is nothing but a concept.. No new technologies or development or language or Server side scripting.
Web 2.0 - this phrase was coined by O'Reilly Media in 2004. The Web content will be contributed by the users themselves instead of publishers pushing content through their sites. In other words, Web 2.0 is User Generated Content.
According to Tim O'Reilly, Web 2.0 is about business embracing the web as a platform and utilising its strengths (global audiences, for example). O'Reilly considers that Eric Schmidt's abridged definition, don't fight the internet, encompasses what Web 2.0 is about - building applications and services around the unique features of the Internet, as opposed to building applications and expecting the Internet to suit as a platform - effectively fighting the internet.
By leaving the content to the users, the Web Developers need to concentrate only on the Business Models and Tools to assist the users.
All the business domains are embracing Web 2.0, from Social Networking (Purely Web 2.0) to E-commerce (Ebay) to Instant messaging and Communication (Skype)..
In 1999-2000, everyone were busy at dominating the Internet, trying to make revenue out of it, and it just fell down, leading to closure and bankruptcy of Web firms. But now everyone (yep me too..) this is were Websites can be moneymakers. NewsCorp bought MySpace for $580 mn.
Some of the popular Web 2.0 Sites are :
Wikipedia.org
MySpace.com (Social Networking)
Del.icio.us (Social Bookmarking)
Ebay (User generated Ecommerce)
Digg (User Generated Web News)
Flickr (Social Photosharing)
StumbleUpon
Blogging sites (This one), Blogspot, Wordpress ...
Basecamp (Project Management)
Orkut , Facebook, Tagged, hi5, LikedIn, Fropper .. the list just goes on..
Posted byShyam at 12:32 PM