Web 2.0 is yet another application that performs the different functions of facilitating participation like information sharing, inter operations works, user centered designing and the collaboration platform for World Wide Web users.
All this sounds really quite overwhelming but it really just another platform where ideas can be exchanged in an informal and interactive setting.
The Basics
This web 2.0 is of course gaining popularity mainly because of its more immediate interactive feature.
Some examples of the web 2.0 include social networking sites, blogs, wikis, video sharing sites, hosted services, web applications, mashups, and folksonomies.
Some would simply refer to the web 2.0 as a platform to meet, read, and write about a variety of shared topics.
Web 2.0 does more than just facilitate the retrieval of information but several steps further to provide the user with more user interface, software and storage facilities.
The user has the opportunity to excise some control over the data retrieved and this creates the conditions for the users to contribute and perhaps add value to the applications being used.
This of course is a very attractive feature for those who enjoy exercising this freedom of contribution with little or no restrictions in place.
While this opens the possibility of an array of different and in some cases opposing ideas it also creates other undesirable elements like spamming and trolling.
This of course in the down side of such freedom experienced at the web 2.0 site.
Though there is little that can be done to curb this sort of negative contributions, the web 2.0 is still very much a popular tool for internet users.
