Web 2.0
18 Feb, 2009
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Web 2.0
[web too point oh]
-adjective
- The second generation of Internet-based services which include tools that let people collaborate and share information online.
- Marketing buzzword describing a website with cotton candy colors, large shiny buttons, reflections, gradients, and huge fonts.
The Real Web 2.0
The term Web 2.0 was coined in early 2004 by O'Reilly and MediaLive International. They noted that even after the burst of the dot-com bubble, new websites and applications were popping up rapidly. Most of the successful companies used the web as a platform and provided web services with dynamic content derived from the users of the website. Web 1.0 was defined as sites that contain static content provided by one source.
Some example Web 2.0 applications are:
The world of Web 2.0 is also the world of what Dan Gillmor calls "we, the media," a world in which "the former audience", not a few people in a back room, decides what's important.1
Web 2.0 as a Design Trend
Somehow Web 2.0 became synonymous with the design trend of shiny buttons, reflections, and huge font. Web designers used it as a marketing buzzword to woo their clients. Who wants to be stuck in Web 1.0? Web 2.0 became a bandwagon and everybody jumped on it.
Come on people, as far as design trends go, I think it is time to move on. This trend is the Hillary Duff and Hannah Montana of web design. My 12 year old daughter loves Web 2.0 sites...nuff said.
22 Jul, 2010
Loup Vaillant
Bittorent is _not_ a Web application. It does _not_ use the 80 nor 443 ports (http and https). Don't confuse the Web and the Internet.