Web 2.0

2nd generation of web

Print Article
Citation
, XML
Authors

Abstract

Web 2.0 refers to the second generation of services available on the World Wide Web that allows people to collaborate and share information online.

Unlike the traditional static web pages of the first generation, Web 2.0 gives users an experience akin to desktop applications. Web 2.0 applications often use a combination of techniques devised in the late 1990s, including public web services APIs, AJAX (1998), and web syndication (1997). They often allow for mass participation ( web-based social software like Facebook, Orkut etc.)

The concept may include blogging platform( Blogspot, WordPress, Type Pad) and wikis (Wikipedia, Knol). Web 2.0 was originally created as a marketing phrase. O’Reilly Media and MediaLive International popularized the terma as the name for series of web developement conferences that started in October 2004. CMP Meida, which purchased MediaLive, claims the term as service mark for live events, reserving exclusive use of the term for its own conferences.