Sunday, May 10, 2009

The Web 2.0

"Web 2.0" refers to a perceived second generation of web development and design that facilitates communication and information sharing and collaboration via the internet.

The term was coined by Del Dolerey in 2004 and he stated that the internet was in a second phase of architecture.



Web 2.0 websites are so popular because they allow people to have contact with people they would ordin
arally not have the oppurtunity to contact. The obvious examples of this are through popular social networking websites such as

Youtube-allows you to post video's.











Myspace-allows an easy way to produce a webpage.












Flikr-allows an easy way to broadcast photographs














Twitter-allows you to post small blogs and follow other blogs












Facebook-combines features of Myspace, flikr and twitter.











as well as other things such as tags, podcast and RSS feeds.














as their is no clear definition of what exactly the "Web 2.0" is, people often describe it using websites such as the above websites or anything new and innovative on the internet.

Here is a picture which is shown as a tag cloud displaying the themes of the "Web 2.0".

Web 2.0 websites typically contain any combination of Search engines, Links, Authoring, Tags, Extensions and Signals and have been coined with the acronym "SLATE".













1 comment:

  1. Good blog. I'm not sure about screen shots of websites when it comes to copyright issues. I know it promotes websites and there are a lot of websites that use this approach when talking and promoting a particular website. In a positive manner of course. I am just mentioning this because we are doing a University course and Universities have rules in relation to copyright and intellectual property and requires getting permission from the copyright owner to display copyright protected material.

    This is not a criticism but an effort to help you get higher grades for your talented work.

    Do a Google search on "Website Screen Shots Copyright" to see what I mean.

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