Web 2.0 Assignment

Berkman
JRN 320
Prof. Liss
Web 2.0

In 2004, Tim O’Reilly, founder of O’Reilly Media, held the first Web 2.0 Conference. A year later the term Web 2.0 became a household word and turned into a movement across the World Wide Web.

“Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform. Chief among those rules is this: Build applications that harness network effects to get better the more people use them. (This is what I've elsewhere called ‘harnessing collective intelligence.’),” Tim O’reilly said.

In layman’s terms, Web 2.0 is the evolving trend towards what I will coin as “soapbox interactivity.” Websites of all types now allow users to leave comments about posted content or even in some cases post replies to that content.
As usual, many newspaper websites were late to the Web 2.0 movement, but now are getting stronger.

Examples, not necessarily news related, of Web 2.0 include Facebook. Allowing users to the use the central site while customizing it for them and networking with thousands, if not millions, of other people. A more news oriented site that uses Web 2.0 well is Wired.com. Wired allows users to comment without any registration and no filter, making it easy for users, but also potentially dangerous for the site.