Web 2.0

Web 2.0

Lemont Redfield

November 15, 2013

XBIS/219

Leslie D’anjou

Web 2.0 has paved the way for the collaboration, interaction and sharing of information through

the internet, turning passive viewers of websites to active contributors of innovative ideas and

significant or vital information. It allows the active participation and contribution of internet

users on their topics of interest, be it about business or about their hobbies.

Web 2.0 offers several ways of communicating online from blogs and wikis to video-sharing

websites to social networking sites. Blogs have turned from simple online journals to sources of

product reviews or description of events and/or places. Wikis have displaced hardbound

encyclopedias making it easier to browse on a particular topic with just a click of a mouse or a

few types on a keyboard as compared to scanning a thousand-page book. Social networking sites

such as Facebook and Twitter have become sources of information and news from around the

world and have allowed relationships to build, causing the world to shrink. Video-sharing

websites, with Youtube as the pioneer, allow users to share their knowledge by uploading their

personal videos and allow others to learn by watching them. In a nutshell, Web 2.0 has redefined

communication. Communication evolved from telegrams to telephones to e-mails to instant

messaging to social networking sites (facebook, twitter) and the list goes on.

The advantages of having Web 2.0 are simply how much you are able to do with it online.

You have access to so much more with web 2.0 and it is easier to make good use of it. The disadvantage would have to be the fact that web 3.0 is available there by making web 2.0 somewhat out dated but still not obsolete.