What does web 2.0 stand for?

what does web 2.0 stand for?


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From Wikipedia: Web 2.0 generally refers to a second generation of services available on the World Wide Web that lets people collaborate and share information online. In contrast to the first generation, Web 2.0 gives users an experience closer to desktop applications than the traditional static Web pages. The term was popularized by O'Reilly Media and MediaLive International as the name for a series of web development conferences that started in October 2004. Web 2.0 applications often use a combination of techniques devised in the late 1990s, including public web service APIs (dating from 1998), Ajax (1998), and web syndication (1997). They often allow for mass publishing (web-based social software). The term may include blogs and wikis. To some extent Web 2.0 is a buzzword, incorporating whatever is newly popular on the Web (such as tags and podcasts), and its meaning is still in flux. O'Reilly recently claimed exclusive use of the term for conference names, further muddying the waters.

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In my own experience web 2.0 stands for websites that are able to perform application type functions or websites that that provide more social interactivity from the user. The difference is from the first internet boom is that it was just text on a screen.
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Web 2.0 basically refers to the transformation of Internet or Web-based applications from static HTML pages to dynamic ones...Social Networking sites like MySpace or totally Geek sites like Digg or bookmarking sites like Del.icio.us or sites like Flickr or YouTube and also applications that can be used online like word processor app Writely or Google Spreadsheets consitute Web 2.0.

Web 2.0's approach is that of people connecting and interacting with each other more frequently.

BTW, Web 2.0 is more, if you can say so, democratized ie more oriented towards Open Source applications than being tied to the proprietary systems...for eg. witness the rise in popularity of Open Source (free) apps like Firefox, OpenOffice, Linux etc. 

Although, there's something called Internet 2 also, that refers to the network of computers, limited to academia, govt., military that is more secure than the one we use...it I think uses IP V6 protocol, a much secure protocol for communications.

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The phrase Web 2.0 was coined by O'Reilly Media to refer to a supposed second generation of Internet-based services that let people collaborate and share information online in a new way such as social networking sites, wikis, communication tools, and folksonomies. O'Reilly Media, in collaboration with MediaLive International, used the phrase as a title for a series of conferences and since then it has become a popular, if ill-defined and often criticized, buzzword amongst the technical and marketing communities.

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Here are some good presentations in hebrew about web2.0 from the last upaisrael event: http://www.upaisrael.org/Activities/Events/2006Events/August_2006_Event.htm

Web 2.0 Hebrew dictionary
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