What is Web 2.0?

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Web 2.0 refers to a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services -- such as social-networking sites, wikis and folksonomies -- which aim to facilitate collaboration and sharing between users. The term became popular following the first O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in 2004. Although the term suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to any technical specifications, but to changes in the ways software developers and end-users use the web. According to Tim O'Reilly, "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."

Web 2.0 makes website more interactive and user friendly. You can use an internet site developed with web 2.0 technology more like a desktop application.

An article explaining Web 2.0 put an interesting twist on the explanation and changed my perception on the internet in general.

Although the changes are un-deniably visible, most believe we as humans are actually changing and adapting to the internet, rather than the internet adapting to human beings.

If the internet continues to change and progresses past Web 2.0, which I think it may already be doing due to technology, we may see the world wide web going through it's own global warming.