WEB 2.

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What is WEB 2.0???

Origins of the term WEB 2.0

Tim O'Reilly says the phrase "Web 2.0" first arose in "a brainstorming session between O'Reilly and Media live International." What is Media live International? "Producers of technology tradeshows and conferences," according to their site. So presumably that's what this brainstorming session was about. O'Reilly wanted to organize a conference about the web, and they were wondering what to call it. There were new technologies being introduced, and the "2.0" referred to whatever those might turn out to be. But for better understanding of the people there had to be a better describe of the term Therefore here it is:-

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. Web 2.0 basically refers to the transition from static HTML Web pages to a more dynamic Web that is more organized and is based on serving Web applications to users.

Here are some examples on how we can compare the change in technology from web 1.0 to web 2.0
Web 1.0 DoubleClick --> Web 2.0 Google AdSense

Ofoto Akamai mp3.com Britannica Online personal websites evite domain name speculation page views screen scraping publishing content management systems directories (taxonomy) stickiness

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Flickr BitTorrent Napster Wikipedia blogging upcoming.org and EVDB search engine optimization cost per click web services participation wikis tagging ("folksonomy") Syndication

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. Figure below shows a "meme map" of Web 2.0 that was developed at a brainstorming session during FOO Camp, a conference at O'Reilly Media. shows the many ideas that radiate out from the Web 2.0 core.

Features and techniques

Web 2.0 sites include the following features and techniques, referred to as the acronym SLATES by Andrew McAfee

SLATES is an initialism that describes the business impacting capabilities, derived from the effective use of Web 2.0 technologies in and across enterprises. It stands for Search, Links, Authorship, Tags, Extensions and Signaling.

Search
Finding information through keyword search.

Just by using a keyword all kinds of information, data, files etc can be searched and located from any corner of the world wide web (www)

Links
Connects information together into a meaningful information ecosystem using the model of the Web, and provides low-barrier social tools.

Using links all kinds of relative information can be connected to each other to form an ecosystem, which helps in easy location of required content on the web

Authoring
The ability to create and update content leads to the collaborative work of many rather than just a few web authors. In wikis, users may extend, undo and redo each other's work. In blogs, posts and the comments of individuals build up over time.

The below wiki web page is a source of information for building the open source 3D printer which is authored by a number of engineers and hobbies from all round the world, I myself have made a few contributions to this page

Tag s

Categ orizat ion of content by users adding "tags" short, usually one-word descriptions to facilitate searching, without dependence on premade categories.

Collections of tags created by many users within a single system may be referred to as "folksonomies"

In the pictures above and below you can see a few examples of tags given to categorize a video on a website to make it easy to search and be found

Extensions
Software that makes the Web an application platform as well as a document server. These include software like Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, ActiveX, Oracle Java, QuickTime, Windows Media, etc.

In this picture you can see a PDF file being viewed using a

web browser, without the need of downloading the software

In this picture you can see examples of a few web applications which use adobe flash

Signals
The use of syndication technology such as RSS to notify users of content changes.

RSS (Rich Site Summary) RSS feeds enable publishers to syndicate data automatically. A standard XML file format ensures compatibility with many different machines/programs. RSS feeds also benefit users who want to receive timely updates from favourite websites or to aggregate data from many sites.

Subscribing to a website RSS removes the need for the user to manually check the web site for new content. Instead, their browser constantly monitors the site and informs the user of any updates. The browser can also be commanded to automatically download the new data for the user.