by DAN CALLOWAY
Published September 6, 2009
WEAVERVILLE, NC – The term Web 2.0 has been on the scene since the late 1990s. Web 2.0 used to stand for anything on the Internet that was new. It received its first formal recognition as a new term at an O’Reilly Media Live Conference when Dale Dougherty adopted the name to represent those things that typified the post dot-com companies as opposed to those companies that did not survive the bursting of the dot-com bubble.
Unlike the former Web 1.0 platforms where Websites were static and Web browsers, which ran on PCs under Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, and Linux, took the Internet site visitor to a Website that ran HTML, and didn’t allow the site visitor to interact with the Website itself, Web 2.0 offers the Web as its platform. This new generation of Web 2.0 services runs on the Internet rather than on the user’s computer platform. Under the Web 2.0 concept, companies such as Google, Inc., offer Web services like Google search, ads, maps, and images wherein the Web is the platform—the user’s Web browser is assumed—and the product being offered is a set of services. (more…)
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