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Web2.0
Web 2.0 is an indication of the phase in which the internet has entered for several years. One of the main features of this second generation internet applications is that anyone can participate in 'enriching' websites by adding text, links, photos and video clips. This 'user generated content' is now much larger than the other professionally published content.
Users are no longer passive recipients. The Web 2.0 is interactive ('read-write') and users are active producers of it content become. Producing, sharing, and enriching content is done in online communities, groups of, for example, friends, colleagues or others with the same interest. We call these groups social networks. Sharing this together and working on something together is another important feature of the Web 2.0. The use of typical 2.0 applications such as Blogs and social networks are showing tremendous growth.
The applications have also become increasingly simpler and, moreover, free, which explains part of the massive use.
Due to the rapid development of the mobile broadband, we see that the internet platform has been extended from the PC to the phone. This in turn has led to all kinds of new Web 2.0 applications in which information is increasingly offered in a location-oriented manner ('what are my friends doing and where are they located?'). In fact 2.0 consists of a range of applications whose end and further development is not yet in sight. The most striking features are interactive, always online ('always on'), simple, location-oriented and social.
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Web 2.0 has been referred to as: technology (Franklin and Van Harmelen, 2007); second generation web-based tools and services (Guntram, 2007); and community-driven online platform or attitude to technology (Downes, 2005; Virkus, 2008).
Downes (2005), a Canadian researcher, believes that the rise of 2.0 is a social revolution rather than a technological revolution. Indeed, Web 2.0 tools and services promote new forms of connectivity, communication, collaboration, information sharing, content development and social organization. Bryant (2007) refers to this new way of life as the “always on” culture where the distinction between learning, work and entertainment begins to blur (Virkus, 2008).
However, the new user-centric paradigm in which users are simultaneously producers and consumers of content and services has emerged from previous web developments. We usually refer to the web before the dot.com crash as Web 1.0. O'Reilly (2005) gives some examples of how we can distinguish Web 2.0 from Web1.0, such as Web 1.0 was primarily a platform for information, but Web2.0 is also a platform for participation (Virkus, 2008).
Read more about Web3.0 en Web4.0.
“What is Web 2-0? Ideas, Technologies and Implications” is a free book that can be read via a download link. The link was originally provided through ictliteracy.info, a website that no longer exists. However, the book has been restored by ITpedia and this is the download link: Technology & Standards Watch What is Web 2-0? Ideas, Technologies and Implications for Education by Paul Anderson.
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