Web 2.0

The definition of web 2.0

Web 2.0 is the second development of the web, it focuses on people being able to interact and share things.

Web 1.0 was about reading	Web 2.0 is about writing
Web 1.0 was about companies	Web 2.0 is about communities
Web 1.0 was about client-server	Web 2.0 is about peer to peer
Web 1.0 was about HTML	Web 2.0 is about XML
Web 1.0 was about home pages	Web 2.0 is about blogs
Web 1.0 was about portals	Web 2.0 is about RSS
Web 1.0 was about taxonomy	Web 2.0 is about tags
Web 1.0 was about wires	Web 2.0 is about wireless
Web 1.0 was about owning	Web 2.0 is about sharing
Web 1.0 was about IPOs	Web 2.0 is about trade sales
Web 1.0 was about Netscape	Web 2.0 is about Google
Web 1.0 was about web forms	Web 2.0 is about web applications
Web 1.0 was about screen scraping	Web 2.0 is about APIs
Web 1.0 was about dialup	Web 2.0 is about broadband
Web 1.0 was about hardware costs	Web 2.0 is about bandwidth costs

Examples of web 2.0 applications


Blogger: people share there own ideas and opinions with others over the Internet

youtube: share videos/ interaction

 Gauntlett’s ideas about Web 2.0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wesch’sideas about the Web

 

 

 

Glossary

Sir Tim Berners-Lee(b.1955)- computer scientist known for inventing the World Wide Web

 

 

 

ARPAnet-The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. One of the world's first operational packet switching networks and the progenitor of what was to become the global Internet.

 

 

 

CERN- European Organisation For Nuclear Research.

 

 

 

Broadband- A method of telecommunication. The term broadband refers to the wide bandwidth characteristics of a transmission medium and its ability to transport multiple signals and traffic types simultaneously.

 

 

Dial-up- A form of Internet access that uses the facilities of the public switched telephone network to establish a dialed connection to an Internet service provider via telephone lines.

 

 

 

Hypertext (HTML)- HyperText Markup Language is the main markup language for creating web pages and other information that can be displayed in a web browser.

Narrowcasting

Is where something is transmited on like the news, social netwokin (the internet), radio, ext.

these are show to spasific groups such as teenagers, young adults, ext.