Web 2.0 refers to websites that allow users to interact with each other and change website content, unlike earlier websites that only allowed passive viewing of information. Examples include social media sites, blogs, wikis, video sharing, and applications that combine data from multiple sources. Key features include user-generated content through searching, linking, tagging, and extensions that make the web a platform for applications. Popular social media platforms associated with Web 2.0 include Facebook for connecting with friends, Twitter for sharing what's happening now, Flickr for photo sharing, and LinkedIn for professional networking.
2. Definition of Web 2.0? The term "Web 2.0" (2004–present) is commonly associated with web applications that facilitate interactive information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web
3. A Web 2.0 site allows its users to interact with other users or to change website content, in contrast to non-interactive websites where users are limited to the passive viewing of information that is provided to them.
4. Examples:- Hosted services, web applications, social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, mashups, and folksonomies.
5. Technology Web 2.0 draws together the capabilities of client- and server-side software, content syndication and the use of network protocols. Standards-oriented web browsers may use plug-ins and software extensions to handle the content and the user interactions. Web 2.0 sites provide users with information storage, creation, and dissemination capabilities that were not possible in the environment now known as "Web 1.0".
11. 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.
13. Categorization of content by users adding "tags" - short, usually one-word descriptions = to facilitate searching, without dependence on pre-made categories. Collections of tags created by many users within a single system may be referred to as "folksonomies"
19. RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format.
20. Web feeds benefit publishers by letting them syndicate content automatically. They benefit readers who want to subscribe to timely updates from favored websites or to aggregate feeds from many sites into one place.
22. An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site. It originated as the modern equivalent of a traditional bulletin board, and a technological evolution of the dialup bulletin board system. From a technological standpoint, forums or boards are web applications managing user-generated content
24. A blog is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video.
25. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add cont ent to a blog.
38. Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world.