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What is Web 2.0?
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".
Web 2.0 websites typically include some of the following features and techniques. Andrew McAfee used the acronym SLATES to refer to them:
Web 2.0 specialized in making the net
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Web 2.0 is more than anything else a new way for searchers to actually use the Web in a collaborative, interactive way. The term 2.0 doesn’t mean that we are “out with the old and in with the new”; quite the contrary! It’s just a new perspective on how we use the Web, and how the Web is used for much, MUCH more than just search.
And Web 2.0 isn’t just limited to what programmers and techie geeks can do with it, either. Web 2.0 is all about you and me and how WE can create content, merge ideas, and in essence milk every last drop of usefulness out of the Web that we can get. The Web is no longer a spectator sport – it’s all about people, ideas, and collaboration. |
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