Web+2.0



One of the many accomplishments that will define our time in the early 21st century will be web 2.0. Since the creation of the Internet we as a world have slowly grown and connected or selves through the Internet. Now with the integration of web 2.0 we can assess the world in ways never possible before.

The term Web 2.0 was first used in January 1999 by Darcy DiNucci 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. In 2003, the term was reintroduces when O'Reilly Media and MediaLive hosted the first Web 2.0 conference. In their opening remarks, [|John Battelle] and Tim O'Reilly outlined their definition of the "Web as Platform", where software applications are built upon the Web as opposed to upon the desktop. They began to outline how Web 2.0 will allow for a read write trype of internet. This functionality will allow users to comment socially and world wide on different articles. They associated Web 1.0 with the business models of [|Netscape] and the [|Encyclopædia Britannica Online]. For example, Netscape framed "the web as platform" in terms of the old software paradigm: their flagship product was the web browser, a desktop application, and their strategy was to use their dominance in the browser market to establish a market for high-priced server products. Control over standards for displaying content and applications in the browser would, in theory, give Netscape the kind of market power enjoyed by Microsoft in the PC market. Much like the "horseless carriage" framed the automobile as an extension of the familiar, Netscape promoted a "webtop" to replace the desktop, and planned to populate that webtop with information updates and applets pushed to the webtop by information providers who would purchase Netscape servers.

To really simplify what web 2.0 is, we must simply look at the ability to comment on a web post. Then the mother of all web 2.0 abilities once you introduce websites like: wikispaces (where u can make your own website to talk about what ever you would like), Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, twitter, google+(the big-name social networking sites), and tumblr (blogging site). These few sites along with YouTube make up the beautify that is Web 2.0 and the free don that comes with it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxID2GQWaqI&feature=relatedmedia type="youtube" key="UxID2GQWaqI" height="315" width="420" align="left" DiNucci, Darcy (1999). [|"Fragmented Future"] (pdf). //Print// 53 (4): 32.

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[|Tim O'Reilly] (2005-09-30). [|"What Is Web 2.0"]. O'Reilly Network . Retrieved 2006-08-06.