The term "Web 2.0" is commonly associated with web applications which facilitate interactive information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design[1] and collaboration on the World Wide Web. Examples of Web 2.0 include web-based communities, hosted services, web applications, social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, mashups and folksonomies. A Web 2.0 site allows its users to interact with other users or to change website content, in contrast to non-interactive websites where users are limited to the passive viewing of information that is provided to them.
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By definition, the Web is a living organism which grows, mutates, and adapts according to the times and its users. Web 2.0 is just the second stage of it. In this age of the Web, we are able to interact freely with our Web, contributing to its growth and continuous state of upgrade.
-Fragmented Future, DiNucci 1999The Web we know now, which loads into a browser window in essentially static screenfulls, is only an embryo of the Web to come. The first glimmerings of Web 2.0 are beginning to appear, and we are just starting to see how that embryo might develop The Web will be understood not as screenfulls of text and graphics but as a transport mechanism, the either through which interactivity happens. It will [...] appear on your computer screen, [...] on your TV set [...] your car dashboard [...] your cell phone [...] hand-held game machines [...] maybe even your microwave oven.
The way we interact with the Web and the way it governs our everyday life is astonishing yet frightening. As new technologies come, new ways of using AND abusing it are born. It is up to us, Web-kind, to insure the growth of a prosperous and sustainable advancement of our web-volution.
Marketing in the Digital Age is so powerful. There are so many tools at our disposal. The TV, the Web, and the cellphone are now becoming increasingly connected and at times indistinguishable already. The lines have become blurred. When someone starts watching TV shows on his computer via video streaming, and someone texts through his instant messenger account, you have to start wondering what the future holds in store for us. 3D live interactive messaging? Holographic calling? Who knows.
The Web now does not only live within the confines of a computer. Cyberspace is continually finding new mediums of expansion. Who would have thought that what people were watching on the 1960's cartoon "The Jetsons" would actually become part of everyday life. Video-conferencing, which was just once a figment of imagination, has now manifested in self in applications like SKYPE and Yahoo! Messenger. We now have the ability to control our houses with our cellphones. Our refrigerators can orders our groceries by itself. Our cars can drive themselves. It's amazing. So amazing.
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If the age of the Greeks was defined by Philosophy, then the modern age is defined by advances on the Web.
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