What Is Web 2 0

T he Web 2.0, phase was           So what really is web 2.0?         first coined by O’Reilly                                           Media, while brainstorming      (Tim O'Reilly) the man who coined  idea’s on next generation             the phrase Web 2.0 have given his  web-based technologies in 2003,       own defamation of web 2.0          and was popularised by the first      architecture on “O’Reilly Radar    web 2.0 conferences which took        website on October 2005”, he       place in Amsterdam in October         stated the web 2.0 is the network  2004. The concept of Web 2.0          as platform, spanning all          refers to technologies that allow     connected devices; Web 2.0         data to become independent of the     applications are those that make   person who produced it or the         the most of the intrinsic          site it originated on. It deals       advantages of that platform:       with how information can be           delivering software as a           broken up into units that flow        continually-updated service that   freely from one site to another,      gets better the more people use    often in ways the producer did        it, consuming and remixing data    not foresee or intend.                from multiple sources, including                                         individual users, while providing  Since the launch of web 2.0 it        their own data and services in a   has clearly taken hold, with more     form that allows remixing by       than 9.5 million citations in         others, creating network effects   Google. But there's still a huge      through an "architecture of        amount of disagreement about just     participation," and going beyond   what Web 2.0 means, with some         the page metaphor of Web 1.0 to    people decrying it as a               deliver rich user experiences.     meaningless marketing buzzword,                                          and others accepting it as the        Web 1.0 VS Web 2.0                 new conventional wisdom.                                                                                       Web 1.0Web 2.0                     Double-ClickGoogle AdsenseMp3.com                                        Mp3 .comNapster                       Web 2.0 is built on technologies   Britannica Wikipedia                  like Ajax, a web development                                             approach based on JavaScript and   In Web 1.0 applications, a Web        the XML programming language.      page is the basic unit of the         This mix of technologies allows    application. Every event that         pages to function more like        happens in the application is         desktop-based applications rather  represented by a page. For            than as old-fashioned static       example, we might need one page       content pages as we have been      to log in to an application, a        used to find on the Web.           separate page to view the latest      The Web 2.0 paradigm allows net    news summary and yet another to       users to pull information from a   view the details of a single news     variety of sites simultaneously    item.                                 and deliver it on their own site                                         to achieve new purposes,           Each time the user carries out an     application such as RSS 1.0 and    action and requests a new page,       RSS 2.0 are classical example of   the Web server responds by            web 2.0.                           returning another Web page or by                                         refreshing the current page. For      Like many important concepts, Web  every user interaction, the           2.0 doesn't have a hard boundary,  entire browser window is              but rather, a gravitational core.  refreshed, including any fixed        You can visualize Web 2.0 as a     interface elements that don’t         set of principles and practices    change from page to page, such as     that tie together a veritable      global navigation. This approach      solar system of sites that         takes the server longer to            demonstrate some or all of those   refresh and extract data in to        principles, at a varying distance  the webpage.                          from that core.                    As software developer, the            Dnzone.com                         evidence of web 2.0 is already        O’Reilly Radar                     here, with RSS aggregators,           silicon.com                        search engines, portals, APIs                                            (application programming                                                 interfaces, which provide hooks        to data) and Web services (where      type="text/javascript">                           tion.com/pagead/show_ads.js">                                                                                                                           About the Author: Kamal Hussain is a qualified teacher for further education (QTfe). 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