Sunday, September 7, 2008

[TIPS] What Is Web 2.0?

There has been an ongoing debate on what "Web 2.0" really is? The ground truth in my personal opinion that Web 2.0 is a jargon that is extremely difficult to define accurately. However, being one who is interested to explore the knowledges on what made up the great World Wide Web, extensive research was done on Web 2.0, particularly from Wikipedia. The knowledge gathered from understanding the studies done on Web 2.0 is in fact quite inconclusive, but yet I am able to derive some rough idea of what it really is.

But there seems to be a very basic understanding with regards to the meaning of Web 2.0 which encapsulate the use of a website and turning it into a social networking and the interconnectivity between users. The emphasis is really on networking using the website on the Internet as a platform. To name some examples, social networking sites like Facebook, Friendster and Myspace. The idea is for users of the Internet to make use of the interconnectivity provided by the Internet and the electronic gateways to connect to each other using applications to meet the common purposes like games, discussions, file sharings of website contents and so on.

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