Web 2.0

Define web 2.0.

Web 2.0 is the internet that is viewed as a medium in which interactive experience. It cones in the form of wikis, forums, blogs, and it plays a very important role than just accessing information. Web 2.0 technologies have a variety of different meanings. These include an increased emphasis on data. Generated content, and contact sharing, new ways of interacting with web based applications, collaborative effort, repositioning and consuming content, and the use of the web as a social platform.

How would you describe web 2.0 to someone who has not taken a course in information systems?

Web 2.0 and other virtual world technologies in the classroom to form relationships, communicate, and express ideas that are centered on topical interests. With these tools you can immerse several participants deep into technological realms with real life interaction. You can create communities that are compromised of self- built avatars that are centered on people’s interests, socialization, or even learning instead just building information. This can promote socialization and information exchange. “Web 2.0" refers to a perceived second generation of Web development and design that facilitates communications and secures information sharing, interoperability, and collaboration on the World Wide Web.”(Harris, Rea, 2009)

What are the advantages and disadvantages of these new technologies?

There have not been a lot people that have taken the time to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of web 2.0. The advantages have heavily touted those who are proponents of web 2.0. There are those people that feel like that this technology will cause more harm than good.

Information can be pulled from many different places. It can be individualized to fit the needs of a single user. It will allow all of the people around the world o communicate with others so they can share ideas rather than hearing their information from a single resource. Information will flow...