For many people, the term Web 2.0 is complicated. They fail to understand what this is and how it works.
Many so-called experts have tried to give their long drawn out technical explanation of this type of web site.
The problem, though, is that they use so much jargons and hard-to-understand technical mumbo jumbo that an average person won’t be able to comprehend and he/she will probably need a Rosetta stone to decipher what these experts are saying.
One of the definitions that I came across when I first started looking into Web 2.0 was a term to characterize design patterns in which they called a constellation of a new generation of web applications.
They went on to speak of infrastructures, and new and improved collaborations. The further I read on, more confused I became.
The only thing that I was able to gather from the writer was “Web 2.0 was a phrase coined by O’Reilly Media in 2004”. Understanding who coined the phrase was not going to help me understand how this new generation of web applications was going to benefit me.
The only way I figured I was going to learn what this was all about was to jump in headfirst and start using these sites to my advantage.
With no real understanding of these sites' true purpose and function, I was leery for some time.
After utilizing different variations of Web 2.0 sites, I have now figured out what this is all about, once you remove the confusing tech talk.
Is it not about time for the average person to understand what this concept is? Well, hold on because I am getting ready to explain this concept to you without using hard-to-understand technical terms.
Web 2.0 websites are user-generated content sites. Visitors to the sites sign up and then start contributing their own content to the site.
MySpace is a user-generated Web 2.0 social networking site. Users create their own profiles, add pictures, and upload videos and even music to the site.
Social bookmarking sites such as Digg allow users to submit links to stories, videos and website that they like along with their own review of the pictures, videos and websites in general.
Thus, the majority or whole content of these sites is that of contributions from users just like you.
