When reading the assignments for this week I can honestly say that I had no idea what Web 2.0 was. In my research I was very surprised to find it is everywhere on the internet, and I use it all the time! The best definition I could find of Web 2.0 was from Wikipedia which defined it as, "a trend in World Wide Web technology, and web design, a second generationof web-based communities and hosted servises such as social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies, which aim to facilitate creativity, collaboration, and sharing among users." Some well know example of Web 2.0 are Youtube, Flickr, Ebay, and even Wikipedia. Though these are just a few examples that are found on the internet, Web 2.0 is really all over the internet nowadays. The following features/techniques from Wikipedia give a better understanding of what Web 2.0 websites typically entail:
*rich Internet application techniques, often Ajax-based
*semantically valid XHTML and HTML markup
*microformats extending pages with additional semantics
*folksonomies (in the form of tags or tagclouds, for example)
*Cascading Style Sheets to aid in the separation of presentation and content
*mashups, merging content from different sources, client- and server-side
*weblog-publishing tools
*wiki or forum software, etc., to support user-generated content
I now have a better understanding for Web 2.0 and decided to upload my first video to Youtube to help contribute to the wonderful Web 2.0. The video is of my brother's English Bulldog puppy Tinkerbell playing with her toys, she is seriously the cutest thing ever! Here She Is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vl3f949364
Wikipedia.org. Retrieved March 2, 2008 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2
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