ED2203 Lecture One Notes: Web 2.0

·        Web 1.0 is getting information from the web

·        Web 2.0 is constructing knowledge collaboratively on the web

        -“Putting the ‘WE’ in the WEB”

-‘The Living Web’.

Examples of Web 1.0/2.0

Web 1.0	Web 2.0
Personal Websites	Blogs
Bratanica Online	Wikkipedia
Content Management Systems	Wikkis
Directories “Taxonomy”	Tagging “Folksonomy”
Screen Spacing	Web services

What is Web 2.0? 

Web 2.0: is an essentially increasing range of software that supports a variety of technologies for open and collaborative communication, learning and creativity. 

It requires:

a)    a platform

b)    social networking

c)    read/write web

d)    social software

e)    gathering and sorting