Web 2.0 Tools

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Posted on January 4, 2006

Okay, what is Web 2.0 first of all? Well, here is how it is defined on Wikipedia.

The term "Web 2.0" refers to what some people see as a second phase of development of the World Wide Web,
including its architecture and its applications. As used by its
proponents, the phrase allegedly refers to one or more of the following:

a transition of websites from isolated information silos to sources of content and functionality, thus becoming a computing platform serving web applications to end users
a social phenomenon referring to an approach to creating and
distributing Web content itself, characterised by open communication,
decentralization of authority, freedom to share and re-use, and "the
market as a conversation"
a more organized and categorized content, with a far more developed deeplinking web architecture.
a shift in economic value of the web, up past a trillion dollars surpassing that of the dot com boom of the late 1990s.

However, a consensus upon its exact meaning has not yet been reached.

Many recently developed concepts and technologies are seen as contributing to Web 2.0, including weblogs, linklogs, podcasts, RSS feeds and other forms of many to many publishing; social software, web APIs, web standards, online web services, Ajax, and others.

Web 2.0 allegedly differs from early web development (retroactively labeled Web 1.0) as it is a move away from static websites, email, using search engines and surfing
from one website to the next. Others are more skeptical that such basic
concepts can be superseded in any real way by those listed above.

So, do you kind of understand now? Well, here is a quick and easy way to say it. Instead of having a page where a few editors pick the content, the people who read or use the site are the ones who choose the content instead, also, there is a certain amount of portability so that you can view and others can view all of the content online. So, there are a few sites that make this doable. Flickr, Digg, and Del.icio.us are the best examples.

Now, the reason I say this is that there is a cool site that has links to a lot of tools that make the use of those pages that much better. So there are tools for Flickr, tools for Delicious, and tools for Digg. It is too cool.

So, the question is still, what are these sites? Well, Flickr is for online sharing of photos so other people can use and view them and you can let your Aunt Gurtrude see those photos of the kids from their last school play. Then Delicious is for sharing your bookmarks. Now, that may sound strange, but the reason is so that you can find other cool sites that you normally wouldn’t have. So you can look and find someone with similar bookmarks to you and see what else they have bookmarked so you can find neat stuff. Then Digg is a social technology news sites made so that people can quickly get the tech news and choose what is popular instead of having some guy in a suit say what is popular. It works well and I am a big proponent of it.

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