Web 2.0

http://webdesign.about.com/od/web20/a/aa021306.htm

http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds13-1/web20.html

http://onlinebusiness.about.com/od/webdesign/a/Web20.htm

I think Web 2.0 can be better defined in reference to what “Web 1.0″ was. In what I’ll call Web 1.0 the goal was to get as much raw information onto the web as possible. Everyone had to have a web presence and most of those sites consisted of just raw information.

Web 2.0 is about putting this information resource to work. This generally means web based applications/services that take advantage of raw data often from several sources to turn aggrate data into more than the sum of it’s parts.

Web 1.0 is still an ongoing project. More raw data is being added to the internet all the time. Web 2.0 began for some a long time ago. Now that everyone is catching up we slapped a name on it.