Web 2.0 Technology

In the last few years, we have witnessed an explosion of Web-based, user-driven social computing, networking, and collaborative applications. These evolving applications come in many forms, including wikis (e.g., Wikipedia), blogs (e.g., Engadget), social networking sites (e.g., MySpace and Facebook), peer-to-peer file sharing (e.g., YouTube), social book marking and tagging (e.g., del.icio.us), mashups (e.g., Flash Earth), and virtual spaces (e.g., Second Life). This second generation of collaborative services—or Web 2.0—facilitates more dynamic participation and interaction online.

Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities and its hosted services, such as social networking sites, video sharing sites, blogs.

Web 2.0 is the Business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as, platform and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform.