Welcome to the Web 2.0 section of the site. Under this topic we will post introductions to, reviews on, and news about emerging Web 2.0 sites. The aim is to help you find useful tools, learn about Web 2.0 and perhaps even just find some sites to while away a few hours on. Who hasn’t been sent a YouTube clip yet?
Wikipedia defines Web 2.0 as a phrase coined by O’Reilly Media in 2004, that refers to a perceived second-generation of Web based communities and hosted services — such as social networking sites, wikis and folksonomies — that facilitate collaboration and sharing between users. O’Reilly Media titled a series of conferences around the phrase, and it has since become widely adopted.
Though the term suggests a new version of the Web, it does not refer to an update to Internet or World Wide Web technical specifications, but to changes in the ways the platform is used. According to Tim O’Reilly, “Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform.“
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