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Web 2.0 is an amazing concept that is closely associated with Tim O'Reilly because of the O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in 2004. The term Web 2.0 sounds like we are in for a huge update or revision of some sort on the web. It's not as it sounds, the term Web 2.0 is simply a technical piece of jargon. Web 2.0 is an global aspiration to change how developers design web sites and how the user interacts with them. The goal is to create web applications that feature and enable participatory information sharing, interoperability and collaboration on the World Wide Web. The widely popular social media applications on the web today are the cornerstones of Web 2.0. Enhancing the virtual communities ability to interact and create user-generated content to display. The web has evolved past the days of static content web sites where users passively browse online. Prime examples of Web 2.0 would be mashups, social networking sites, wikis, blogs, video sharing, hosted services, web applications and folksonomies.
Darcy DiNucci
The term "Web 2.0" was first used in January 1999 by Darcy DiNucci, a consultant on electronic information design information architecture. In her article, "Fragmented Future", DiNucci writes:
The Web we know now, which loads into a browser window in essentially static screenfuls, is only an embryo
of the Web to come. The first glimmerings of Web 2.0 are beginning to
appear, and we are just starting to see how that embryo might develop.
The Web will be understood not as screenfuls of text and graphics but as
a transport mechanism, the ether through which interactivity happens.
It will appear on your computer screen, on your TV set, your car dashboard, your cell phone, hand-held game machines, maybe even your microwave oven. Courtesy of: Wikipedia.
Mashups
Characteristics of a mashup that best describe their function would be combination, visualization, and aggregation. Mashups allow ease of information use, by combining and refining the data and content we have existing on the web. This enables us to permanently access information from other services. Mashups are usually client applications or hosted online.
It's becoming very popular in the Web 2.0 era for web applications to publish API's (Application Programming Interface) to enable developers to utilize their programs functions and data. Sharing, contributing, and interfacing with each other creating a more intelligent virtual community. We are at a behavioral cusp where human beings are able to learn and experience the web in a whole new way.
Folksonomies
Folksonomy is a system for classifying, managing, and categorizing content, also known as collaborative tagging, social tagging, and social indexing. Derived from the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content. Tagging is one of the major attributes in Web 2.0. and has been integrated into most of the popular social networking sites today. Tagging allows users to classify and find information and photo's on the site as well as on the web. Please visit this Wikipedia page for more details on folksonomy.
This is a basic introduction to the Web 2.0 concept. Blogs, wikis, video sharing and social networking are also worthy topics to research on the subject. Become familiarized with these subjects. As you can probably already see, the web is definitely heading into the 2.0 era. Please follow my blog and comment!
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