WEB 2.0 [volume 2.0]

Web 2.0 is known world wide, but isn't expressed as Web 2.0; the everyday internet user does not know this terminology, but simply expresses it as the "net".

Web 2.0 has created the phenomenon of the communication styles of the 21st century. Web 2.0 is not simply a communication system, but also a sharing system that allows users to create web links the allows file sharing, information sharing and also personal sharing.

O'Reilly Media in association with MediaLive International, developed a diagram that expresses the principles and practices of Web 2.0 to the online community, where the "web" is the platform of the system; and the possible operations that are included within this complex system.


There are multiple examples that can relate to the complex operations of file sharing, and multi-million members of online communities.

FACEBOOK:- Facebook is an online "social-networking website" that allows users to "roam" the digital world, to network with 175 million+ users. Created by Harvard students Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.




Facebook operates with an online profile that allows you to add personal information (intersts etc), in order to create an online identity for the online community.
(if you are un-sure; please visit www.facebook.com and join the revolution of online communication)

Web 2.0 also produces a number of bit torrent websites that allow you to download; games, movies, series, programs, songs, and images. Various sites such as http://thepiratebay.org/ and http://www.mininova.org/ allow users to download torrent files which are then uploaded to torrent clients such as http://www.utorrent.com/ to download the uploaded torrent file.


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O'Rielly Media webpage, online. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html. last accessed 08-03-09
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Facebook webpage, online. http://www.facebook.com/home.php. last accessed 08-03-09
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Mininova webpage, online. http://www.mininova.org/. last accessed 08-03-09
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The Pirate Bay webpage, online. http://thepiratebay.org/. last accessed 08-03-09
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Utorrent webpage, online. http://www.utorrent.com/. last accessed 08-03-09