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Internet: the second generation
Posted on September 08, 2006 by Kathryn Regina.
If you have ears, you’ve probably heard people talking about “Web 2.0.” But for many of us, ubiquitous phrases like this can be hard to pin down and define (just think of similarly popular words like “solutions” and “credibility.”)
According to Wikipedia, “Web 2.0 is a phrase coined by O'Reilly Media in 2004 to refer to a supposed second-generation of Internet-based services that let people collaborate and share information online in new ways — such as social networking sites, wikis, communication tools, and folksonomies. O'Reilly Media, in collaboration with MediaLive International, used the phrase as a title for a series of conferences and since then it has become a popular, though ill-defined and often criticized, buzzword amongst the technical and marketing communities. Alluding to the version-numbers that commonly designate software upgrades, the phrase ‘Web 2.0’ hints at an improved form of the World Wide Web, and the term has been in use for several years.”
For those that need further definitions:
Social networking sites—The pop culture version of Web 2.0, the most popular networking sites are myspace.com and friendster.com. Dating sites like match.com can also fall into this category.
Wiki—a website that allows visitors to add or edit content, thus enabling “collaborative authoring.” The largest example of this is Wikipedia—a free-content multilingual encyclopedia project. For interested etymology nerds, Wikipedia states that the “first such software to be called a wiki, WikiWikiWeb, is named after the "Wiki Wiki" line of Chance RT-52 buses in Honolulu International Airport, Hawaii. ("Wiki wiki" means "quick" or "hurry" in Hawai'ian, and also refers to a type of fish native to the islands).” Wiki is also thought to be a backronym for “what I know is.” (A backronym is a type of acronym that starts as a word with its own meaning and is later given acronym status).
Folksonomy—a classification methodology of collaboratively generated, open-ended labels that categorize web content. Folksonomy is a portmanteau (see my last blog entry) of folks and taxonomy, to indicate that the authors of the labeling system are also the users of the content to which the labels are applied. These labels are commonly known as tags and the labeling process is called tagging.
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