web 2.0 (article)

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    web 2.0 is associated with web applications that facilitate participatory nformation sharing, interoperability, user-centered design and collaboration on the World Wide Web. A Web 2.0 site allows users to interact and collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as creators (prosumers) of user-generated content in a virtual community, in contrast to websites where users (consumers) are limited to the passive viewing of content that was created for them. Examples of Web 2.0 include social networking sites,blogs,wikis,video sharing sites,hosted services,web applications,mashups and folksonomies.

web 2.0 information technologies and applications

AJAX

AJAX stands for asynchronous Javascript And XML..AJAX simply means that the web page can be more responsive and act more like an application without always requiring us to click on links and reload the page.AJAX is one of the key underlying concepts behind web 2.0, which strives to be both more collaborative and more dynamic.

BLOG

 a blog is a type of website or part of a website. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order

SOCIAL MEDIA

the best way to define social media is to break it down. Media is an instrument on communication, like a newspaper or a radio, so social media would be a social instrument of communication.

In Web 2.0 terms, this would be a website that doesn't just give you information, but interacts with you while giving you that information. This interaction can be as simple as asking for your comments or letting you vote on an article, or it can be as complex as Flixster recommending movies to you based on the ratings of other people with similar interests.

Think of regular media as a one-way street where you can read a newspaper or listen to a report on television, but you have very limited ability to give your thoughts on the matter.

Social media, on the other hand, is a two-way street that gives you the ability to communicate.Social media can take many different forms, including Internet forums, weblogs, social blogs, microblogging, wikis, podcasts, photographs or pictures, video, rating and social bookmarking.



Many of these social media services can be integrated via social network aggregation platforms.


Communication

Blogs: Blogger, ExpressionEngine, LiveJournal, Open Diary, TypePad, Vox, WordPress, Xanga
Microblogging: FMyLife, Foursquare, Jaiku, Plurk, Posterous, Tumblr, Twitter, Qaiku, Yammer, Google Buzz, Identi.ca Nasza-Klasa.pl
Location-based social networks: Foursquare, Geoloqi, Gowalla, Facebook places, The Hotlist
Social networking: ASmallWorld, Bebo, Cyworld, Diaspora, Facebook, Hi5, Hyves, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ning, Orkut, Plaxo, Tagged, XING , IRC
Events: Eventful, The Hotlist, Meetup.com, Upcoming
Information Aggregators: Netvibes, Twine (website)
Online Advocacy and Fundraising: Causes, Kickstarter


Collaboration/authority building

Wikis: PBworks, Wetpaint, Wikia, Wikimedia, Wikispaces
Social bookmarking (or social tagging):[23] CiteULike, Delicious, Diigo, Google Reader, StumbleUpon, folkd
Social news: Digg, Mixx, NowPublic, Reddit, Newsvine
Social navigation: Trapster, Waze [24]
Content Management Systems: Wordpress, Drupal, Plone
Document Managing and Editing Tools: Google Docs, Syncplicity, Docs.com, Dropbox.com
Collaboration: Central Desktop


Multimedia

Photography and art sharing: deviantArt, Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa, SmugMug, Zooomr
Video sharing: sevenload, Viddler, Vimeo, YouTube, Dailymotion, Metacafe, Nico Nico Douga, Openfilm
Livecasting: Justin.tv, Livestream, OpenCU, Skype, Stickam, Ustream, blip.tv
Music and audio sharing: ccMixter, Pandora Radio, Last.fm, MySpace Music, ReverbNation.com, ShareTheMusic, The Hype Machine, Groove Shark, SoundCloud
Presentation sharing: scribd, SlideShare


Reviews and opinions

Product reviews: epinions.com, MouthShut.com
Business reviews: Customer Lobby, Yelp, Inc.
Community Q&A: Askville, EHow, Stack Exchange, WikiAnswers, Yahoo! Answers, Quora


Entertainment

Media and entertainment platforms: Cisco Eos
Virtual worlds: Active Worlds, Forterra Systems, Second Life, The Sims Online
Game sharing: Kongregate, Miniclip


Brand monitoring


Social media measurement: Attensity, Statsit, Sysomos, Vocus

source : wikipedia