An Overview of Web 2.0

What is Web 2.0?

Web 2.0 is the term coined to defined the trend in the use of the Internet or the World Wide Web technology and the process of web design that has a primary aim to develop the creativity, information dissemination and most importantly, the link between the users. Since this concept was introduced, there had been existing sites and web based communities such as “hosted services” like different social networking sites, wikis and blogging sites. Many businessmen claimed that Web 2.0 had been successful in turning the essence of the Internet as an actual platform.

Level of Uses of Web 2.0

Web 2.0 offers different opportunities to its users. There are different hierarchies of applications that denote the uses of Web 2.0. The first one is the application that you can use perfectly whether online or offline. An example of this is Google Maps wherein you can access information even you are not connected to the Internet. You can use the full feature of the application whether offline or online. Next are the applications that you can still use offline but there are additional features that you can use when you are online. One of these applications is iTunes where you can use it as a player while you are offline but you can access its store online. Third, these are applications that still can operate offline but there are many advantages when you use it online. Flickr is one of these applications where you can access its photo database online from its community of users. Lastly, these are the applications that only exist in the Internet. Web 2.0 made connections of different people across different geographical location possible.

Web 2.0 based applications are useful in making the Internet as a platform that serve as a venue where people can freely interact with each other. It allows the users to share information, use and reuse it freely. There are growing opportunities opened by Web 2.0 especially in the field of business and social networking.

Characteristics of Web 2.0

Websites that uses Web 2.0 allow their users to share information like photos, videos and music files. They allow different kinds of information sharing. As a platform, there are many software application that can be used to enhance the impact of the entire browser.

Web 2.0 also enhances the users usability of the websites. It enrich the participation and dynamics of the users in contributing to the information and content available in the site. By doing so, it promotes the collective intelligence of the users through gaining and sharing experiences that will be beneficial to all f them. From these, different businesses had prospered.

The development of Web 2.0 gave rise to the development of technology used in the Internet. It pushed the technological innovation to make the data processing and sharing more effective and more efficient.

Web 2.0 is a complicated and continuously developing innovation of technology. It serves as a way where people can use it as a venue of interacting and sharing information from one towards another.
 

Bruno

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