by raza
6. October 2008 14:07
"It's unstoppable, say the digerati in San Francisco this week: Users are taking over the Web"
"At least in the two tech gurus' minds, "Web 2.0" stands for the idea that the Internet is evolving from a collection of static pages into a vehicle for software services, especially those that foster self-publishing, participation, and collaboration. (See O'Reilly's recent essay, 'What is Web 2.0?'). "
"User-centered Web phenomena such as blogging, community photo-sharing (exemplified by Flickr), collective editing (Wikipedia), and social bookmarking (Delicious), they argue, are disrupting traditional ideas about how software is built and how information is generated, shared, and distributed on the Internet."
"With almost half a million Wikipedians contributing and editing articles, 90 million people running the open-source Mozilla Firefox browser, and 18.9 million people now publishing blogs (according to blog search engine Technorati), the case goes, it's hard to dispute that users' attention is gradually shifting away from the products of traditional publishers, media companies, and software makers."
"In our initial brainstorming, we formulated our sense of Web 2.0 by example:
| Web 1.0 |
|
Web 2.0 |
| DoubleClick |
--> |
Google AdSense |
| Ofoto |
--> |
Flickr |
| Akamai |
--> |
BitTorrent |
| mp3.com |
--> |
Napster |
| Britannica Online |
--> |
Wikipedia |
| personal websites |
--> |
blogging |
| evite |
--> |
upcoming.org and EVDB |
| domain name speculation |
--> |
search engine optimization |
| page views |
--> |
cost per click |
| screen scraping |
--> |
web services |
| publishing |
--> |
participation |
| content management systems |
--> |
wikis |
| directories (taxonomy) |
--> |
tagging ("folksonomy") |
| stickiness |
--> |
syndication" |
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