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Web 2.0
• The term "Web 2.0" is associated with web
applications that facilitate interactive information
sharing, interoperability, user-centered design,
and collaboration on the World Wide Web.
• A Web 2.0 site allows its users to interact with
each other as contributors to the website's
content, in contrast to websites where users are
limited to the passive viewing of information that
is provided to them.
Web 2.0
• The term is closely associated with Tim
O'Reilly because of the 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
rather to cumulative changes in the ways
software developers and end-users use the
Web.
Web 2.0
• Tim O'Reilly outlined their definition of the "Web
as Platform", where software applications are
built upon the Web as opposed to upon the
desktop.
• "Network as platform"
• "Architecture of participation“
• Web-as-participation-platform
• Web 2.0 the "participatory Web“
• Collective Intelligence
Users
• The popularity of the term Web 2.0, along with
the increasing use of blogs, wikis, and social
networking technologies, has led many in
academia and business to coin a flurry of 2.0s,
including Library 2.0, Social Work 2.0, Enterprise
2.0, PR 2.0, Classroom 2.0, Publishing 2.0,
Medicine 2.0, Telco 2.0, Travel 2.0, Government
2.0. Many of these 2.0s refer to Web 2.0
technologies as the source of the new version in
their respective disciplines and areas.
Blog
• A blog (a contraction of the term "web log") is a
type of website, usually maintained by an
individual with :
– regular entries of commentary,
– descriptions of events, or
– other material such as graphics or video.
– entries are commonly displayed in reverse-
chronological order.
• "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to
maintain or add content to a blog.
• Blog was coined by Jorn Barger in 1997.
Types
• Personal blogs: an ongoing diary or commentary
by an individual, is the traditional, most common
blog.
• Corporate and organizational blogs: Blogs used
internally to enhance the communication and
culture in a corporation or externally for
marketing, branding or public relations purposes.
• By genre: Focus on a particular subject, such as
political blogs, travel blogs, house blogs, fashion
blogs, project blogs, education blogs, classical
music blogs, and many others.
Types
• By media type: blog comprising videos (vlog),
one comprising links (linklog), a site containing
a portfolio of sketches (sketchblog) or one
comprising photos a (photoblog).
• By device:Blogs can also be defined by which
type of device is used to compose it. A blog
written by a mobile device like a mobile phone
or PDA could be called a moblog.
• Mass media
• Employment
• Political
• Personal safety
• Educational
• Family
• Comunity

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