What is Web 2.0?

February 22nd, 2007

Web 2.0 is the age of information.

Our ancestors lived in an age when the only way to access knowledge was through books. Between the time when my grandfather gifted me my first encyclopedia to today where I actually have edited a few entries on Wikipedia, man has traveled a long way.

The age of Web 1.0 was a phase when Internet was accessed by the elite and the erudite. The new version of the Web has made memory redundant. All you need to know is your email password and you are fine.

Today I was talking to one of my friends and she told me that a mutual friend of ours recently celebrated her birthday. I said that I must wish her belated happy birthday. She said that I was shameless.

I said that we Web 2.0 people are quite shameless.

2 responses

  1. Locx comments:

    I presume you are a bit wrong presenting the statement.
    Web 1.0 was domain owned information based website services whereas its successor is more like the platform based interactive services owned by user usage. :P

  2. Dan comments:

    Hey Sheece,

    It’s cool that you’ve started a blog. I’ve been doing a lot of research lately and found some cool stuff about Web 2.0 and it’s impact on technical communication. Here’s a link to some blog posts from a writer I’m particularly enjoying lately: http://www.idratherbewriting.com/category/web-20/

    Shoot me an email and we’ll catch up on things.

    Dan

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