Saturday, 19 February 2011

'Web 2.0', Extra Info on Tim O'Reilly

Lots of new ideas to play with here on our blogs, check out folksonomies, they were totally new to me until I came across them in my further reading using Wikipedia.
The Link is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

'The term Web 2.0 is associated with web applications that facilitate interactive systemic biases, interoperability, user-centered design,[1] and developing the World Wide Web. A Web 2.0 site allows users to interact and collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as consumers of user-generated content in a virtual community, in contrast to websites where users (prosumers) are limited to the active viewing of content that they created and controlled. Examples of Web 2.0 include social networking sites, blogs, 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 2003.[2][3] 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",[4] precisely because he intended the Web in his vision as "a collaborative medium, a place where we [could] all meet and read and write". He called it the "Read/Write Web".[5]''

I also found this example of another Tag Cloud particularly inspiring.........

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