Web 2.0

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 1.0                                            Web 2.0
Reading                                            Writing
Companies                                       Communities
Client-server                                     Peer to peer
HTML                                                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

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