Over the past few years the Internet has evolved and with it came great changes. Before, people visiting the Internet were spoon fed, now they have the ability to change information they receive and are able to share information through different platforms made available. Visitors are now given the great power to alter information and comment or discuss on topics of interest, however with great power comes great responsibility!

You witnessed, were a victim of or have at least heard about the bursting of the dot com bubble in the fall of 2001. Fortunes that had been made overnight were lost overnight.

The sky was falling. It was a very scary time for a lot of people. Some said that the World Wide Web was just a flash-in-the-pan idea that had been over-hyped and that the crash was irrefutable proof of that fact.

There were, however, some survivors of the 2001 dot com bust. The survivors had a few important commonalities and there were those who insisted that the World Wide Web was more important than ever and had a very bright future indeed.

One of those who saw the results of the 2001 dot com bust as a ‘glass half full’ rather than a  ‘glass half empty’ was a man by the name of Tim O’Reilly. O’Reilly of O’Reilly Media met with Dale Dougherty of Media Live International in 2004. Out of that meeting the term ‘Web 2.0’ was born.

The definition that Tim O’Reilly gives for Web 2.0 is: "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.

Chief among those rules is this: Build applications that harness network effects to get better the more people use them."

Web 2.0 can be viewed as an upgrade to the World Wide Web. It is still the web but it is a new and improved version of the web.

New technologies such as blogs, social bookmarking, wikis, podcasts and RSS feeds are just a few of the technologies that are helping to shape and direct Web 2.0.

The Web before the dot com crash is often referred to as Web 1.0 now but only since the coining of the term Web 2.0.

Some of the more obvious difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 are: Double  Click  replaced  by  Google  AdSense,  Britannica  Online  replaced  by Wikipedia,                Personal  Web  Pages  replaced  by  Blogs,  Content  Management Systems replaced by Wikis and Directories replaced by Tagging.

These are only a very few of the differences between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 but they are the major ones.

You will notice, if you look carefully that the commonality of many of the differences  between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 is that Web 1.0 was driven and controlled by the ‘powers-that-be’ and Web 2.0 is driven by users.

That is a HUGE difference, as Web 2.0 is becoming more user friendly not to mention more profitable for the Average Joe. You might even call it a power shift of seismic proportions.

Websites that could be accessed on the Internet were built and controlled by only a few and were certainly not ‘interactive’ but today anybody with an idea, a  few  dollars  and  little  know-how  can  build  a  Web  2.0  website  that  is completely interactive and turn it into  a  money-making enterprise if they choose to.

The technology is there. It is easy to use. It is accessible and it is relatively cheap, some of it is even free.

Many websites that started out as static websites are now adding features like blogs and forums and propelling themselves into the future of Internet commerce. Those websites who continue to ignore these rapid changes are falling further behind and will soon die out.

Expectations are increasing of regular people who now expect to be able to ask questions and get answers from websites and they expect websites to be at least somewhat interactive. The Internet has always been and still is a platform for            information      but             with Web  2.0,   it      has       also  become  a  platform  for participation, changing a passive audience into an active audience.

Let’s  look  at  just  a  few  of  the  innovations  of  Web  2.0  and  how  these innovations have changed the World Wide Web:

Blogs: Blog is a term that is derived from the blending of the two words ‘web’ and ‘log’....Blog. Fairly early in the history of the World Wide Web people could build personal web pages. It is true that not many people did build personal webpages but it was, nonetheless, possible.

Still, these personal webpages were static websites. The owner of the website could post information about himself or his interests but others could only read the information that the owner of the website posted.

Then along came technology. Blogging software was developed. Now those who had  personal websites could not only post about themselves, but they could  allow  their  visitors  to  comment  on what  had  been  posted  or  ask questions. It was a huge advancement and because of that technology, today blogging is big business.

People visit and post to blogs all over the Internet about any and every subject that they are interested in and the owners of these blogs have figured out that they can make their blogs very profitable.

Social Bookmarking: Social bookmarking is more or less a by-product of blogging but it is based on the same basic technology.

Social bookmarking sites such as Delicious, allow their users to upload their own favorite site bookmarks so that everybody else in the world can see and use those bookmarks.

When a user uploads his favorite site bookmarks into his online account, a backlink is created to that site. When enough people click on the link, the site that has been book marked gets indexed and gains a rank by search engines.

It is a form of user driven advertisements that is far more successful than any kind of paid advertising can ever be.

As social bookmarking sites are increasing, new software is being developed all the time that makes these sites more productive such as advertising tools and traffic driving tools.

Wiki: A short definition of Wiki is “Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and crosslinks between internal pages on the fly.”

In short Wiki technology allows editing of material posted on a website by the author or by others.

The best example of Wiki technology in action on the Internet is Wikipedia. In the old Web 1.0 way of doing things the owner of a website had full control over all material that was posted to the website and only website owners could edit material posted on the website. On the other hand with the advent of Web 2.0 that idea has gone the way of the horse and buggy.

RSS Feed: The acronym RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication that allows the web to be driven by people rather than by the powers-that-be. Those who use RSS content use reader or aggregator technology. When users subscribe to these feeds, the reader or aggregator then checks the user’s website and when the site has new content, it is picked up and sent to the user. That is a rather simplified explanation but that is basically how it works.

A client based reader or aggregator is a stand-alone program that is attached to an existing program such as a web browser or an email reader.

A web-based reader or aggregator makes the user’s feeds available on any computer with web access.

Podcasts  or  Webcasts: As  broadband  internet  connections  and  wireless networks become more common throughout the entire world, the podcast or webcast is also gaining in popularity.

While people do still read, they prefer watching and listening to information thanks to television, hence, the advent of podcasts or webcasts.

You  can  find  and  tune  into  podcasts  or  webcasts  on  almost  any  subject imaginable today. Those who have blogs are making use of this technology to sell products and to promote their websites in record numbers.

Web 2.0 is definitely here to stay and those who are still trying to do things the old Web 1.0  way are falling behind this wave of today and of the future. However will there be changes to Web 2.0?

Well, of course, there will be. Web 2.0 is fluid and it is ever changing like technology. So new technology will be developed and as it is developed people will use it. After all people are the driving force of Web 2.0.

And, you might ask, just who will benefit the most from Web 2.0? It will be those who embrace the new technologies as they become available and it will be us…all of us.

The internet no longer belongs to the few and the privileged. Big business has lost its edge. The Internet and Web 2.0 has leveled the playing field. All of us (you, me and all those who have access to the Internet) can now compete and win.

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