Web 2.0

Web 2.0 can be thought of as a plethora of tools and products that tie together to make a viable system. These are applications that allow you to do more with less. Web 2.0 also give the ability to have a more user friendly usable product, the ability to operate on different platforms and give the user the ability to generate content based on permissions. Web 2.0 is considered to be the second version of the World Wide Web, rather than an update to the World Wide Web. Social media is a good example of Web 2.0, because the users can interact and collaborate on different dialogue. Web 2.0 is very essential to running a small business, because it allows the business to interact with the customer over the web. Questions can be answered without ever talking to the customer. The business web model can include marketing, answers to common questions and product information without the customer having to interact with a human. This saves time and money by letting the employees concentrate on other things. A user can contribute their thoughts and actions to the site, the user can also review. Reviews allow the business to see things from the customer’s perspective. All of these points are made possible through Web 2.0. Web developers can make this newer version of the web interact to make the internet sites function like applications. This eliminates the need for the business owner to have multiple servers, because the databases that hold the information running from the application can be ran from remote servers. It takes the headache of having to worry about an Information Technology system stored locally. All the business owner really needs is desktop computers and a internet service provider. Web 2.0 allows businesses cut down on overhead, because the business owner can just subscribe to services instead of having a full scale information system along with the support team to manage and support the system applications. Web 2.0 has enabled the small...