Characteristics that define Web 2.0:
1. Dynamic content, viewable on multiple platforms
Twitter has a new application called tweetwally.com. Tweetwally allows you to customize a page that will only display the tweets which you want to follow. The content on Tweetwally is dynamic as well as user generated and social: Web 2.0. Tweetwally can be used for multiple platforms like projectors and smart phones.
2. User contribution (user generated content or user generated value)
YouTube is a perfect example of user contribution. YouTube is a website which relies on content of the users. Not only does YouTube rely on the users’ content, but YouTube also keeps track of the most popularly viewed videos, videos being watched now, as well as allowing users to comment and rate the videos. The video created by the guy who wrote “one world” on his hand and received thousands of video replies is an example of user generated content and value.
2. Social media
Facebook is generated by online media that provides opportunities for socializing, connecting, and sharing. Facebook is the ultimate socializing network; users create profiles (creating an image and personality: online identity), event pages (organizes and plans parties and meetings), groups (connecting people who have a similar interest or hobby), ect. Facebook also allows users control what other people see and what they don’t. Connecting through Facebook is easy. People will never get bored of connecting with people in new and different ways. The need to share pictures is one of the main reasons Facebook has become so popular. Socializing, connecting, and sharing: Web 2.0.
4. Online applications (http://www.go2web20.net/)
Memoov.com is an example of an online application of Web 2.0. memoov is a website which allows the users to create simple animation movies and post them up on the memoov site and YouTube.com. Memoov is dynamic, generated content, which is shared amoung users = Web 2.0.
5. Harnessing collective intelligence
BitTorrent is a program used for sharing audio and video. Users upload and download files for and from other users.
BitTorrent uses Peer-to-Peer Networking (P2P): communication/file sharing between users/computers/nodes ect.
I am going to stop copying the Word format over to my blogs because it always messes up something, in this case its the spacing.
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