What is WEB 2.0. | what are the characteristics of web 2.0

What is WEB 2.0.

WEB 2.0 is the second generation of web development and design which provides communication , secure information sharing and collaboration on world wide web.
Evolution of WEB 2.0 created a lot of web communities which interacts each other, applications such as social networking sites , video and audio sharing sites , blogs etc.

Main Characteristics of WEB 2.0

AS we all know about WEB 1.0 is all about the normal websites intended for publishing the the information to its users, WEB 2.0 has a lot more to do.

Applications support.
On WEB 2.0 one can run an entire application thru a browser.
example Ebay.com, Google earth, Face book, Orkut

Limit user access
On WEB 2.0 we can limit the access of users depending on there roles.

Search
On a web 2.0 websites there would be a search option which in which you can easily search the required contents.

Tags
Contents can be categorized using the tags.

RSS
There would be RSS feeds provided to the users where in which they can use any common RSS readers to read the feed.

Signals
There would be a mechanism to notify the users about the updates available.

Content Management
There should be options to update the contents and images online which enable frequent updation.

Interactive
WEB 2.0 would have options for users to interact with the community, it can be discussion forums, comments and any thing of that sort.

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