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Web 2.0...... what is it?

Concepts of web 2.0

A short answer to what is web 2.0 = The SOCIAL networking via the internet, e.g blogs, podcating, video-sharing etc.

The following explantion was taken from http://practiceincontext.wordpress.com/
I believe this explantion is an easy to understand example.

web 2.0

In his article Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning? Bryan Alexander outlines what he considers are the three main concepts for the web 2.0. These are:

social software is a development of `’using networked computing to connect people in order to boost their knowledge and aility to learn” ( JCR LickLider, 1960s), as in listservs, usenet groups, discussion software, groupware and web-based communities. Recent web projects: blogs, wikis, trackback, podcasting, videoblogs. Its about user modification, timeliness( reverse-chronological structure). Not abreak from web 1.0 but the emergence of a new type of practice.

microcontent is a development of web 1.0 as well. It involves collaboration and sharing such as in: Email messages, discussion-board posts,, usenet-hosted images, text messages. But web 2.0 builds on this original microcontent drive, with users developing webcontent, often collaboratively and ofetn oopen to the world.” (bryan alexander). Web not as a book but as microcontent blocks. not webpages, but postblogs. These content blocks are shuttled between web sites thought RSS feeds, and diverse players and built into new projects.

openness is a distinctive factor of web 2.0 both ideologically and technologically, characterised by a two-way access. Its ideological difference from web 1.0 resides in the creative and active role given to web users, as creators of (micro) content. Technogically this is possible due to social software such as wikis and social bookmarking, as in flicker.com, with users tagging the information with personal keywords.

According to Bryan Alexander, ” taken together, this set of concepts informs a way of making, sharing, and consuming digital documents” that pinpoint to an emergent group of practices that are crucially more important than any label can account for.