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In 2005, Tim O’Reilly, considered the idea of “The Web As a Platform”, and stated that
“Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform”.
“Like many important concepts, Web 2.0 doesn’t have a hard boundary, but rather, a gravitational core. You can visualize Web 2.0 as a set of principles and practices that tie together a veritable solar system of sites that demonstrate some or all of those principles, at a varying distance from that core.”
You can probably already identify some common Web 2.0 applications, such as Flickr, My Space, YouTube etc, but there are many, many more!
Click on the go2web2.0 screenshot (above) to see some of the enormous range of Web 2.0 applications available on the internet
Click on a range of the hundreds of site thumbnails to explore the diverse ways in which Web 2.0 is used: try the Visible Body site
So, now that you’ve looked at some Web 2.0 applications, just what is Web 2.0?
Andy Budd is an innovative web designer who has produced an interesting slideshow that explains the various dimensions of web 2.0 technology and its implications for the future. Visit his presentation here
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