web 2.0 - Internet as a platform

web 2.0

web 2.0 refers advanced form of word wide web. social bookmarking site digg, delicious are cosidered as advanced form of website. the term web 2.0 is first coined by orielly media in 2004.

web 2.0 refers

- The transition of Web sites from isolated information sites to sources of content and functionality, thus becoming computing platforms serving web applications to end-users
- A social phenomenon embracing an approach to generating and distributing Web content itself, characterized by open communication, decentralization of authority, freedom to share and re-use, and "the market as a conversation"
-Enhanced organization and categorization of content, emphasizing deeplinking

first Web 2.0 conference, Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle summarized key principles of Web 2.0 applications:

- the web as a platform
-data as the driving force
- network effects created by an architecture of participation
-innovation in assembly of systems and sites composed by pulling together features from distributed, independent developers (a kind of "open source" development)
- lightweight business models enabled by content and service syndication
-the end of the software adoption cycle ("the perpetual beta")
- software above the level of a single device, leveraging the power of The Long Tail.
- easy to pick up by early adopters
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