Many people ask what is web 2.0.
Here is a simple definition: web 2.0 = “user-generated content”.
Classic examples are YouTube, where the web itself is only a repository of users’ videos. It can be taken a step further, where content is created collaboratively, such as in wikipedia. More subtle 2.0 can be google, where the search rank is determined by number of links to that page, that is, determined at the end by the users.
I also very much like Reed Hastings definition: ”Web 1.0 was dial-up, 50K average bandwidth, Web 2.0 is an average 1 megabit of bandwidth and Web 3.0 will be 10 megabits of bandwidth all the time, which will be the full video Web, and that will feel like Web 3.0.”
If you want this blog to be really 2.0, just add a comment…
May 25, 2007 at 10:26 am
Some days ago an article in el mundo ( http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2007/05/01/catalejo/1178001341.html ) showed very interesting statistics on how many people is actually building the so called web2.0. It turned out that most of us are just ‘voyeurs’.
Only 0.2% of the visits at Youtube are uploads, 0.02% visits for google video and 0.16% for flickr.
If 99.8% of the clicks are for watching, who’s writing all this 2.0 stuff???
May 25, 2007 at 11:58 am
Well, that’s more than with regular media, no?
For instance, a book is written by one person and read by millions. So here is the same, but there are quite a few “writers” -0.2% of youtube visits is a LOT-.
I guess in the future the uploading stream will increase, although there might be a limit of the amount of content a given audience can absorb.
July 12, 2007 at 6:11 pm
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please describe web 2.0 to me in 2 sentences or less.
you make all the content. they keep all the revenue.
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