What exactly is Web 2.0?

Hi,

I'll try to explain what web 2.0 is. I don't make a claim that this is exactly what it is. I'm trying to explain what I know about it.

Let's say you do a search on Google.com about your favorite topic and google present you with a list of websites depending upon what they think is relevant to your search query. They have an algorithm running behind the screen, which matches the relevancy of any webpage with the keyword/phrase.

But who's Google anyway? They aren't the authority on any subject. They have definitely studied the subject of "data mining" to create a free tool called the search engines which makes it easier of a large number of people to quickly organize vast amount of data on your desktop by clicking a few buttons.

This has given rise to the concept called Web 2.0 where "normal people" like you and me decide what is good and bad or relevant or irrelevant. In short any service, which allows users to share/edit/rate, the online content falls under this category. A nice example is digg.com where users digg the post submitted by another user if they find it suitable/interesting/informative etc. The authority is in the hands of users not any computer algorithm. Of course this allows many people to manipulate the system as well. (spammers)

This is what I know about this Web 2.0 thing. If anyone else knows about this please post.

There's two concepts in Web 2.0 - on is social networking type websites like facebook, stumbleupon, digg where content is user generated and shared within the community.

The other is a web design that uses round, flashy buttons, curved corners, etc.

I guess this one is more upgraded and more flexible version of web 1. Which provide more and more flexibility in communication and other web related activities.

Right, here's my take. I'm new to the forum but I've been looking at doing my own web design recently and have invested in Photoshop. From my research there's a lot of misinformation on the net about what Web 2.0 really is.

I'm not saying I truly know what it is either. But my opinion is that a Web 2.0 design is often divided vertically into 3 sections and horizontally into 4.

From the top down we start with a text-based logo on a dark background normally aligned to the left. Often, the navigational menu is now being used as part of the header also.

Moving down, there is often a summary of what the web site is all about, although this is not always the case. Where it's used, the comments are often kept brief and original comedy can sometimes be used.

Then, you have the fundamental part of the web site that is split usually into three columns and organized in a way that is extremely pleasing to the eye. The text in each of these sections is usually 2-3 sentences long with a link to another page within the site.

At the bottom of the site, you'll have links to external sources, a navigational menu and some copyright information. As I'm new to the forum, I can't post links. But I can do my best to get you to this page I came across the other day on the Style Ignite web site. It will explain Web 2.0 in much more detail and summarise the layouts, colors and graphics used.

The article title/url is "analysis-of-web-20-design-layout-trends-part-1-clean-colorful-and-horizontally-divided" and it is on the Style Ignite.com web site. I hope you find it.

Hope this helps,

Connor

Quite a few of the implementations that I have seen involve the issue of press releases. And nothing else!

Web 2.0 is a meaningless term that covers the phenomenon of replacement of communication and content in favor of a gross exhibitionism or narcissism, catering to the insecure and lonely to command their attention and deluge them with ads of appeal only to the insecure and lonely.

I wondered about this myself. And to be quite honest, I'm still not sure what it is.

Web 2,0 is the following generation of solutions of the technology in which the interactive content it is the norm. Not there is agreement on exactly that web 2,0 means, second which be speaking with, you can receive the different explanations. it is the heart, web 2,0 is approximately the maturity of the web and the commerce that is prospering online. While many refer to web 2,0 like companies that employ the powerful technologies of web, the members keys of new web are said in order to include: the web like a platform, a collaboration and constitution and syndication

I remember reading something like this. Web 2.0 was originally developed to make room for progression in web site design, they wiped out tables and grid formatting from being the standard and changed it to css where more room for creativity could happen. There was also something about duplicate content and hacker manipulation on websites was, quite a while ago sorry.

LOL ... Web 2.0 is just a marketing word that was made up ... It has no meaning. It was made up to refer to social networking sites such as myspace, facebook, and etc. In order to push the new technology as they called it, they needed a name and thus they came up with web 2.0 to make consumers think it was a web upgrade.

Fact is there is no web upgrade - It is just these social networks started using new technologies such as ajax and etc.

James

Thank you guys for all of your answers. I conpletely understand now. I appreciate all of your help.


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