Apr 24 2008
What is Web 2.0?
Web 2.0 is a term that was introduced in 2004 to describe a new generation of Web applications which provides dynamic user participation, social interaction and collaboration. In a nutshell, the next step of the www.
In an article written in 2005, Tim O’Reilly lists on O’reillyNet a sampling of an initial brainstorming of applications that are Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0 at that time:
| Web 1.0 | Web 2.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| DoubleClick | –> | Google AdSense |
| Ofoto | –> | Flickr |
| Akamai | –> | BitTorrent |
| mp3.com | –> | Napster |
| Britannica Online | –> | Wikipedia |
| personal websites | –> | blogging |
| evite | –> | upcoming.org and EVDB |
| domain name speculation | –> | search engine optimization |
| page views | –> | cost per click |
| screen scraping | –> | web services |
| publishing | –> | participation |
| content management systems | –> | wikis |
| directories (taxonomy) | –> | tagging (”folksonomy”) |
| stickiness | –> | syndication |
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