The easiest way to understand how the Web2.0 vision is influencing today’s online development and experience is to look at what characterizes the recent wave of online products used by early adopters, tech enthusiast and influencers (Twitter, Tumblr, FriendFeed, Dig, FeedBurner, LinkedIn). You find a diverse collection of applications and destinations that each work to refine or introduce a single online task or activity. These new companies are fully invested in the idea of the Internet as a central platform which operates a wide variety of integrated software products for online publishing, networking and collaboration. This user driven vision gives users the ability to create a personal network of specialty applications that best manage their lives, interests and relationships-- commonly referred to as the Mashup. The growing stream of new products built to serve Web2.0 users gives the networks of active users a scaling degree of complexity.
Those who passionately embrace this vision are often opposed to companies who operate closed platforms, or seek to own critical elements of the Web 2.0 framework. This movement believes that the web should be characterized by openness, the democratization of information, the empowerment of users, and the free access to software product. It opposes large Internet players seeking stronghold positions in the control of data, social relationships or software. But if user data and relationships are free of corporate ownership, how can can companies that facilitate the network survive? No one is sure.
Web2.0 definitions:
Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform. Chief among those rules is this: Build applications that harness network effects to get better the more people use them. (This is what I've elsewhere called "harnessing collective intelligence.")- Tim O'Reilly
The idea of "Web 2.0" can also relate to a transition of some websites from isolated information silos to interlinked computing platforms that function like locally-available software in the perception of the user. Web 2.0 also includes a social element where users generate and distribute content, often with freedom to share and re-use. This can result in a rise in the economic value of the web to businesses, as users can perform more activities online.- Wikipedia
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