View or download a copy (Microsoft Word) of Web 2.0 and Libraries: Selected Bibliography.
What is Web 2.0?
Web 2.0 is the network as platform, spanning all connected devices; Web 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of that platform: delivering software as a continually-updated service that gets better the more people use it, consuming and remixing data from multiple sources, including individual users, while providing their own data and services in a form that allows remixing by others, creating network effects through an “architecture of participation,” and going beyond the page metaphor of Web 1.0 to deliver rich user experiences.
Tim O’Reilly, “Web 2.0: Compact Definition?”
Web 2.0 in a Nutshell
While there is no authoritative definition of Web 2.0, we can begin to understand Web 2.0 based on its characteristics:
- User generated and/or user influenced content
- Applications that use the Web (versus the desktop) as a platform, in innovative ways
- Similar visual design and shared functional languages
- Leveraging of popular trends, including blogging, social tagging, wikis, and peer-to-peer sharing
- Inclusion of emerging web technologies like RSS, AJAX, APIs (and accompanying mashups), Ruby on Rails and others
- Open source or sharable/editable frameworks in the form of user-oriented “create your own” APIs
SEOmoz’s Web 2.0 Awards Zeitgeist
How does Web 2.0 differ from Web 1.0?
adapted from Joe Drumgoole’s May 29, 2006 Copacetic blog entry
