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Web 2.0 is a cool buzzword floating around, but its meaning has become somewhat diluted and obscured like a spoken story handed down from generation to generation. So many people limit their thinking of Web 2.0 to blogs and wikis, but it's so much more. So here's my working definition of this thing we call Web 2.0:

- the next generation of the internet where the content of the web is created or edited by end-users (either individually or collaboratively) rather than those few geeky computer nerds. Further, these sites often allow collaboration, sharing, and assimilation to bring about exchanges of ideas from many different perspectives in the form of text, photos, videos, and/or other multimedia components.

See a slideshow here!




The foundation web tools are blogs, wikis, and virtual desktops. Using these as a foundation, you can do all things Web 2.0. Oh yeah- and they are all almost always free (if they aren't, keep looking for alternatives that are).




The blog (like mine shown here), wiki (like the one you are exploring right now) or virtual desktop (such as my iGoogle page) acts as the "host" where clips or "widgets" are embedded from other web resources. These widgets may include images, videos, news feeds, podcasts, interactive applications, etc. There's so much out there- and it's evolving almost daily!


A Simple Analogy: Think of the "old" web as a movie screen that you watched, gathered information from, etc. Think of Web 2.0 as a stage where you can either "act" yourself or invite others to "act" with you or for you. You determine what gets placed on the stage. You are now the director of the show, not merely an audience member!





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