Web 2.0

Web 2.0

According to Tim O Riley "Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as a platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform. " (O'Riley, Tim 2007/1)

Web 2.0 can be described as all the Web sites with value driven out of users actions.

Web 2.0 is all the Web sites out there that get their value from the actions of users.

To help visualize the concept of Web 2.0 one might say it resembles a solar system of sites that are tied together with a set of principles.

Like many important concepts, You can visualize Web 2.0 as a set of principles and practices that tie together a veritable solar system of sites that demonstrate some or all of those principles, at a varying distance from that core.

Elements:

The first element of web 2.0 should be the coding, the core language behind the technology that makes it possible.

Ajax, which means "Javascript now work" which in turn means that applications based on the web can now work like desktop ones.

You program a website the way you would a desktop application, to preform a preset task. This is crucial for the concept of Web 2.0 to function.

Democracy and human tolerance are the second element of web 2.0.

Web 2.0 is the new community of the web, and as any other human inhabited community civil rules must be set for it to progress.

The third element is commercial success. Without sufficient funding programmers and developers will not find ways to keep their websites running.

Websites rely on their online user traffic to generate attractive advertising spaces. As oppose to the per-page in the old days of Web 1.0 now we have per-click in Web 2.0.

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