Web 2.0 is the web standard used today. Unlike the first version, Web 2.0 allows us to interact with other users of the Internet. Instead of only retrieving information provided by the administrator of a website, we can communicate with others. As opposed to the Internet being a one-way resource for the users, the Internet became a mere “tool†for users to communicate with each other. With it came the birth of social networking sites (facebook, MySpace, linked-in, etc.), social bookmarking sites (dig, delicious, etc.) and social shopping sites (kaboodle.com, thisnext.com, etc.).
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Web 1.0Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Web 2.0
Reading                                         Writing
Companies                                    Communities
Client-server                                  Peer to peer
HTMLÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â XML
Home pages                                  Blogs
Lectures                                         Conversation
Advertising                                     Word of mouth
Services sold over the web             Web services
Portals                                            RSS
Wires                                              Wireless
Netscape                                        Google
Owning                                           Sharing
Web forms                                     Web applications
Screen scraping                             APIs
Dialup                                             Broadband
Hardware costs                             Bandwidth costs
Internet Explorer                           Firefox