WEB 2.0 !!!!!!!!!!

DEFINITION!

• 'Tim says the phrase "Web 2.0" first arose in "a brainstorming session between O'Reilly and Medialive International." It was a kind of semantic deficit spending: they knew new things were coming, and the "2.0" referred to whatever those might turn out to be.'


• 'The story about "Web 2.0" meaning the web as a platform didn't live much past the first conference. By the second conference, what "Web 2.0" seemed to mean was something about democracy.'


• Web 1.0 was the base, on which Web 2.0 was to develope. Functions such as;

DoubleClick-->Google AdSense
Ofoto-->Flickr
Akamai-->BitTorrent
mp3.com-->Napster
Britannica Online-->Wikipedia
personal websites-->blogging
evite-->upcoming.org and EVDB
domain name speculation-->search engine optimization
page views-->cost per click
screen scraping-->web services
publishing-->participation
content management systems-->wikis
directories (taxonomy)-->tagging ("folksonomy")
stickiness-->syndication

Were all to change from one to the other as the web was developed. So Web 2.0 wasn't exactly a new creation it was more of an improvement to what is already known as The Internet.

USAGE!

• Web 2.0 personals are being employed within the public area, giving more use to the term Government 2.0. For example, Web 2.0 websites such as Twitter, YouTube and Facebook have helped in providing a possible way for citizens to connect with higher government officials, which was otherwise nearly impossible.


• Universities are using Web 2.0 in order to reach out and connect with Generation Y.Examples of this are: social networking websites – YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, Youmeo, Twitter and Flickr and virtual learning environments such as Moodle enable prospective students to log on and ask questions.


• Web 2.0 initiatives have been employed in public diplomacy for the Israeli government. The country is believed to be the first to have its own official blog ,MySpace page,YouTube channel, Facebook page and a political blog.


• Social Work 2.0 represents the use of interactive web technologies in the delivery of social services. Social workers use web 2.0 technologies for clinical practice, community organizing and administrative and policy functions. Social workers use chat programs to provide online therapy, or e-therapy. Web 2.0 technologies also allow for self-directed treatment through web-based modules. The use of Web-based technologies is not without its problems for social work. Social workers are state regulated, leading to concerns about providing services over the Internet to people in different states. Thou current licensee laws do not apply to services provided outside of the licensing state.

THE PEOPLES OPINION! (DEMOCRACY)

• In a podcast interview, Tim Berners-Lee described the term "Web 2.0" as a piece of jargon: "Nobody really knows what it means...If Web 2.0 for you is blogs and wikis, then that is people to people. But that was what the Web was supposed to be all along." In this quote Tim is saying that Web 2.0 isn't better, its still the same to people, with just a different name. This was intended to inflict an idea to the public that Web 2.0 is a waste of time and money as its identical to the programs their already using.
• Thou wikipedia is not a reliable source it does state some criticism on Web 2.0; According to wikipedia many people are concerned that Web 2.0 does not represent a new version of the World Wide Web at all, but merely continues to use so-called "Web 1.0" technologies and concepts. This idea could be remotely true as many of the ideas that Web 2.0 consists of had already been featured on the network systems well before the term "Web 2.0" emerged.
• Other criticism has included the term “a second bubble” (referring to the Dot-com bubble of circa 1995–2001), suggesting that too many Web 2.0 companies attempt to develop the same product with a lack of business models. This is because the company's are thinking of new programs,etc but they haven't an idea on how to develop them. Also these idea's seems to be so general that all the other company's are attempting to create them as well, and still calling them 'original'. So with this lack of process many of Web 1.0 programs are being included in the Web 2.0 criteria as there aren't as many features in Web 2.0.
  

FOR MORE INFORMATION GO TO

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

http://www.paulgraham.com/web20.html