1. Vet0
   November 5, 2009 at 8:08 pm | Permalink

   Read this Wikipedia article please,

2. Chris G
   November 7, 2009 at 3:54 am | Permalink

   Web 2.0 was a term popularized by Tim O’Reily, in this article:

   This diagram explains it best, I think:

   However, due to it’s popularization, many marketing companies and startups now use the term for *anything* on the web. It gets used to describe a visual aesthetic (usually with lots of reflections and rounded corners). The term is so saturated now, that it has lost pretty much all meaning.

   You’re best off just ignoring the term, and focusing on what makes sense for your business/software/project, whether that is “Web 2.0″, or something else.

3. Ian W
   November 9, 2009 at 8:07 am | Permalink

   My understanding of Web 2.0 is that it is really a collective term that describes a number of new services and sites that are becoming very popular on the internet.

   These sites can split into a number of categories:

   social bookmarking sites
   social media sites
   social news sites

   The one major thing they have in common is the sharing of user data, and the networking of the users that have supplied that data.

   The site i’ve referenced may help you:

One Trackback

1. By What is Web 2.0, is it a thing, a concept or is it just a buzz … « Social Computing Technology on June 8, 2010 at 1:22 pm

   [...] reading here: What is Web 2.0, is it a thing, a concept or is it just a buzz … marketing, marketing-info, media, privacy, Web [...]