What is Web 2.0?

The easiest way of understanding web 2.0 is to first look at the basic meanings of the term. Web 2.0 refers a more interactive generation of the World Wide Web, (or Internet) services, and by this I mean services that encourage information sharing online through services like social networking sites, trading sites and basically any page where content, or information can be shared between users. The way that I like to look at interactive sites is that by sharing content with others you can actually recognise that there are actually other real people out there on the Internet, rather than a system of networks and codes supplying you with an endless supply of information. Web 2.0 is the name given to a group of web applications that are more user-interactive than original web applications.

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