| Web 2.0 | Web 2.0 is a set of economic, social, and technology trends that collectively form the basis for the next generation of the Internet—a more mature, distinctive medium characterized by user participation, openness, and network effects. Tim O’Reilly, Fall 2006
A web site that utilizes Web 2.0 tools and methods allow visitors to do more the read information. They can interact and participate with the site to contribute content and comments.
Common Web 2.0 tools include social-networking sites, video sharing sites, RSS feeds, wikis, blogs, tag clouds, bookmarking systems, and content rating systems. |
| Wiki | A wiki is a web page or group of pages that are easily editable by anyone who can access the page. A wiki is not a carefully designed web page. It is a working tool for the creation and editing of content by many people that is constantly changing. A wiki is a good content aggregator. The wiki philosophy suggests that allowing users to edit any page created by another user enables faster content correction than painstakingly ensuring content is perfect the first time. See Wikipedia for more info. See Wikipatterns for a guide to the stages of wiki adoption. |
| Wikipedia | Wikipedia is a "free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.." Wikipedia is a free, multilingual, open content encyclopedia project operated by the United States-based non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. It is currently the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet. Wikipedia was the first particular "Web 2.0" service mentioned by Time magazine, followed by YouTube and MySpace. (Wikipedia) |
| Wikis | A wiki is a web page or group of pages that are easily editable by anyone who can access the page. A wiki is not a carefully designed web page. It is a working tool for the creation and editing of content by many people that is constantly changing. A wiki is a good content aggregator. The wiki philosophy suggests that allowing users to edit any page created by another user enables faster content correction than painstakingly ensuring content is perfect the first time. See Wikipedia for more info. See Wikipatterns for a guide to the stages of wiki adoption. |
