Web 2.0 Assignment

Elizabeth Cooper



I found an article from oreillynet.com from 2005 that talks about the web 2.0 conference. The concept of web 2.0 began with a brain storming session between O’Reilly and MediaLive International. There was a dot com collapse that made a turning point for the web. They decided to call it web 2.0.
After reading through some articles online about web 2.0, I believe it can be defined as the changes of the web at a time when they affect a wide spread amount of people. I think it’s interesting to place a time when the web changes so drastically that you can name it at that time. One article said web 2.0 started when Google was claimed to be used by everyone and anyone everyday. And it continued saying because of blogging and everyone being interactive we could consider ourselves in 3.0. Along with the articles, I watch a video on youtube.com that showed aspects of web 2.0. It showed how the web developments change everything.
I think web 2.0 has affected our society in a positive way by connecting others and making information readily available. I think it is hard to pin-point what other major changes in the web have the highest impact. So it would be hard to say what would bring us to the next step of new technologies for the Internet.