Web 2.0

What is web 2.0? it is a term that was officially coined in 2004 by Dale Dougherty during a team discussion about the future of the web. It is used to describe a second generation of the world wide web with the main purpose and aim of users being able to collaborate , facilitate creativity and information sharing.

Key Web 2.0 Applications

Blogs: a contraction of "web log" and refers to a shared online journal that consists of information, diary entries or links which are called posts. Most blogs allow users to comment below a blog entry. Examples include blogger, typepad, wordpress.



Wikis: is a website that allows easy creating and editing by visitor themselves. It is work from many different authors collaborating to create websites. The most widely known and used is the online encyclopaedia, wikipedia.



Tagging and Social Bookmarking: is a method for online users to save links to web pages that they want to share or to remember.



Multimedia Sharing: it is a service that facilitates the storing and sharing of multimedia. Examples include flickr, youtube, vimeo, odeo.



RSS and Syndication: allows users to find out about updates of content via RSS enabled websites, blogs or podcasts without having to actually visit the site.