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What is Web 2.0?

October 25th, 2006

Talking to all of these developers that are in the “Web 2.0″ community really confuses you … because that all have their own definition of Web 2.0.

So what is Web 2.0?

Google defines Web 2.0 as: Web 2.0 is a term often applied to a perceived ongoing transition of the World Wide Web from a collection of websites to a full-fledged computing platform serving web applications to end users. Ultimately Web 2.0 services are expected to replace desktop computing applications for many purposes. (Which is a reference to Wikipedia’s entry for Web 2.0)

Tim O’Reilly has a post here (What Is Web 2.0) on his whole idea of what is Web 2.0 … now is this the true meaning of it?

WhatIs has this as a meaning for Web 2.0
Seriously I want to know what Web 2.0 is? There has to be one overall meaning for it. Web 2.0 is not what? Web 2.0 is what? Web 2.0 is confusing!

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  1. October 25th, 2006 at 23:31 | #1

    You know I find myself using the words “Web 2.0″ more and more these days, and subsequently defining it.

    I think Web 2.0 is amazing. When I find myself staring at a Web 2.0 site, I really am impressed at not only what the website can do, but how web design has really changed over the years that I’ve been working with it.

    Great collection of links man - great timing also. Though I hear that some people seem to be looking into the future rather than enjoying the technologies of today: http://tinyurl.com/ya2wlu

  2. October 29th, 2006 at 16:13 | #2

    Basically anything that’s cool looking and feature rich is considered web 2.0. I don’t think it’s limited to specific programming language or anything like that.

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