Whats there in WEB 2.0

This Second generational Web Community is the latest Revolution in the IT Industry .It is the improved version of WWW . Wiki says , Technologies such as weblogs , social bookmarking, wikis , podcast, RSS feeds (and other forms of many-to-many publishing),social software , web app programming interface (APIs), and online web services such as eBay and Gmail provide a significant enhancement over read-only websites .

Features of Web 2.0 :

• – AJAX based
• – Use of open source software, such as the Lamp stack
• – User Generated Content such as Forums
• – Weblog publishing tools
• – XHtml and Xml based
• – Mashups , merging content from various sources
• – CSS to separate presentation from content .

Table From O Reilly states the Difference :

• Web 1.0 —> Web 2.0
• DoubleClick –> Google AdSense
• Ofoto –> Flickr
• Akamai –> BitTorrent
• mp3.com –> Napster
• Britannica Online –> Wikipedia
• personal websites –> blogging
• evite –> upcoming.org and EVDB
• page views –> cost per click
• screen scrapin –> web services
• publishing –> participation
• directories –> tagging
• stickiness –> syndication