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What is Web 2.0?
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 * ====Web 2.0 is the term given to describe a second generation of the World Wide Web that is focused on the ability for people to collaborate and share information online. ====

History of the Name "Web 2.0"

 * ====The term "Web 2.0" was first used in January 1999 by Darcy DiNucci, a consultant on electronic information design, in her article, "Fragmented Future." ====
 * ====In terms of the public, the term Web 2.0 was largely championed by bloggers and by technology journalists, culminating in the 2006 TIME Magazine Person of the Year (You.) That is, TIME selected the masses of users who were participating in content creation on social networks, blogs, wikis, and media sharing sites. ====
 * ====In 2003, the term began its rise in popularity when O'Reilly Media and MediaLive hosted the first Web 2.0 conference. ====
 * ====Since that time, Web 2.0 has found a place in the lexicon; in 2009 Global Language Monitor declared it to be the one-millionth English word ====

What are the components of Web 2.0?

 * ====Blogs, Wikis, RSS and Social Bookmarking ====

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What are the 10 characteristics of Web 2.0?

 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** The Web is a platform. ** We have gone from installable software on our PC, to software-services that are accessible online. All data and software is now available online.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** The Web is functionality. ** The Web aids in the transfer of information and services from websites.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** The Web is simple. ** It facilitates the access and usage of web services using user-friendly interfaces.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** The Web is light. ** The models of development, the processes, and the models of business become light. The lightness is associated with the ability to share of information and services with ease, and made possible through the implementation of intuitive modular elements.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** The Web is social. ** People create the Web, “populate the Web”, by socializing and gradually moving members from the physical world to the online world.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** The Web is flow. ** The users are seen as co-developers, while Web 2.0 remains in “perpetual beta”, where it remains at the beta development stage for an indefinite period of time.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** The Web is flexible. ** The software is on a more advanced level because it enables access to previously unavailable digital content. This idea is similar to the Long Tail concept, which focuses on the less popular content that couldn’t previously be accessed.
 * 8) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** The Web is mixable. ** The expansion of codes in order to modify web applications (like Google does with its Google Maps application) allows individuals who are not necessarily computer professionals to mix different applications in order to create new ones. Web 2.0 gets its power through this “mashup” capability.
 * 9) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** The Web is participatory. ** Web 2.0 has adopted a structure of participation that encourages users to enhance the application while they use it, instead of keeping it rigid and controlled.
 * 10) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** The Web is in our hands. ** Its increased organization and characterization of information emphasizes its user-friendly interaction through deep linking. Thanks to phenomena such as social tagging, information is always more and more easily available.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You Too Can Use Web 2.0!
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