Phil Whelan wrote:
Web 2.0 for me is the movement of the web from something you read to something you participate in, and the new web-communities helping to build sites with which they have an interest. This is enabled by new technologies such as blogs, readers leaving comments, voting, mash-ups of web-services, video upload, wiki's, and tagging.
"new technologies"? Blogs (including online diaries) that you can leave comments on have been around since 1998; RSS 1999. Wikipedia launched in 2001. XMLHTTP was invented by Microsoft for Outlook Web Access 2000. eBay launched its API in November 2000, Amazon launched their web services in 2002, and I remember "mash-ups" being created back then - e.g. Amazon Light. So this second (perhaps more, who knows, my memory's not great either :) ) wave, or whatever you want to call it, isn't exactly new technology, it's just http://www.eod.com/devil/archive/web_20.html
AJAX is a technology associated closely with Web 2.0, but is just a way to make the interaction more seamless by reloading parts of a web page instead of whole webpages. This way you get a feel you're interacting with the website, instead of manually submitting changes.
Or you find that (not with all sites by any means, but a fair few) your back button stops working, or it just plain doesn't work...
http://www.eod.com/devil/archive/ajax.html
Anything that depends on a community for it's content and success, for me, is Web 2.0.
I'll let my local orchestra know. ;-)
Examples, digg.com,
So why that, and not slashdot? Slashdot has user submitted stories, sophisticated comments, and so on. It even has rounded corners!
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