Web 2.0

Web 2.0 is associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web. A Web 2.0 site allows users to interact and collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as creators (prosumers) of user-generated content in a virtual community, in contrast to websites where users (consumers) are limited to the passive viewing of content that was created for them. Examples of Web 2.0 include social networking sites, blog's, wikis, video sharing sites, hosted services, web applications, mashups and folksonomies.

The term is closely associated with Tim O'Reilly because of the O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in late 2004. Although the term suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to any technical specification, but rather to cumulative changes in the ways software developers and end-users use the Web. Whether Web 2.0 is qualitatively different from prior web technologies has been challenged by World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, who called the term a "piece of jargon", precisely because he intended the Web in his vision as "a collaborative medium, a place where we all meet and read and write". He called it the "Read/Write Web".(sources : http://en.wikipedia.org)

Web 2.0 is a concept that describes the current principles and practices that are shaping the internet into a more user centered platform that has interoperability between objects on the web and interactive communication between and for its users. Web sites like Google and Wikipedia could be called as the "web 2.0? websites that have a high level of user participation.Similarily RSS feeds could also be included as an example of what we could call a 'web 2.0 innovation' that provide a plethora of information sharing for all of its users. As the internet platform is on a perpetual beta mode, new innovations and improvement on older novelties are a part of its life cycle.

Here at SilentDrifter Inc., we believe in designing products that shine the reflection of future in them. In other words, we keep in mind when designing our products that they must be engineered to fit the sophistication's of its future improvements and present needs. The concept of web 2.0 maybe esoteric for many but the practical realization of this concept could be seen all over the web. With double clicks being replaced by Google ad sense, users participation highly encouraged all over the web and user based "folksonomy’ that makes taxonomy look like an ancient mammoth in an ice cube. They are all part of the internet’s revolutionary change that makes it looks like a culmination of different entities loosely held, but together.

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