2.0 Wit Web 2.0
A few days ago there was an interesting discussion on LinkedIn’s “Travel 2.0″ group about what the buzzword “Web 2.0″ really means and how useful it is.
Here I adapt my own contribution to that discussion:-
Tim O’Reilly, who originally coined the term in 2004, said Web 2.0 is “a transformative force that’s propelling companies across all industries towards a new way of doing business characterized by user participation, openness, and network effects”.
“Web 2.0” is essentially a more interactive version of “Web 1.0”, allowing users to not only retrieve information, but also react to it, contribute to it, syndicate it, tag it, bookmark it, define it, control it, and create it.
Elements of Web 2.0 existed before 2004 and even before the dot com crash in 2001. In fact, many of the survivors of the bursting of the bubble had already woken up to the benefits of O’Reilly’s “user participation, openness, and network effects”.
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