Web 2.0 Terms

noreply@blogger.com (jking2122) — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:25:00 +0000

Hello World,
In this initial blog i would like to lay the ground work for the rest of the blog. This blog will focus on Web 2.0 (and a little 3.0 later on) and the changing market. I will discuss ways to simply get involved with Web 2.0 and social networking, as well as the best way to utilize certain tools. I will provide tutorials when needed. As well I will talk about new start ups that and ways to use and integrate them.

Now for the basics. Here a some terms that you must know, if you don't know these you may find yourself completely overwhelmed.

- Web 1.0 - wikipedia defines it as

Web 1.0 refers to the state of the World Wide Web, and website design style before the Web 2.0 craze, and included most websites in the period between 1994 and 2004. It is important to note that "Web 1.0" is a retronym. That is to say that it has been retroactively named only after the introduction of the term "Web 2.0", and has very loosely defined boundaries. For the most part websites were a strictly one-way published media, similar to the Gopher protocol that came before it.

Personal web pages were common in Web 1.0, consisting of mainly static pages hosted on free hosting services such as Geocities, nowadays dynamically generated blogs are more popular, often keeping real-time statistics and allowing for readers to comment on posts.

At the Technet Summit in November 2006, Reed Hastings, founder and CEO of Netflix, stated a simple formula for defining the phases of the Web:

“	Web 1.0 was dial-up, 50K average bandwidth, Web 2.0 is an average 1 megabit of bandwidth and Web 3.0 will be 10 megabits of bandwidth all the time, which will be the full video Web, and that will feel like Web 3.0.	”
—Reed Hastings

Web 2.0 - Again wikipedia -

Web 2.0 is a term describing the trend in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to enhance creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users. These concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies. The term became notable after the first O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in 2004.^[2] ^[3] Although the term suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to any technical specifications, but to changes in the ways software developers and end-users use the Web. According to Tim O'Reilly:

“	Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform.^[4]

Blogosphere - INCLUDES THIS PAGE! blogosphere refers to ALL blogs and their inter-connectivity

API - Application Programming Interface. Usually a website will release their API so that they can easily integrate with other online tools. One major example is Google Maps.

Mashup - the combining of two or more online tools to create one new tool. Example is bank-anywhere.com a mashup of google maps and bank directories.

I hope these initial terms help. Check back for new updates!

Goodbye World

Web 2.0 - Hello World

Web 2.0 Terms