READIT-2007 - Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research

• Web 2.0 applications work for the user, and are able to locate and assemble
content that meets our needs as users, rather than forcing us to conform to the
paths laid out for us by content owners or their intermediaries.
• Web 2.0 applications are modular, with developers and users able to pick and
choose from a set of interoperating components in order to build something
that meets their needs.
• Web 2.0 is about sharing: code, content, ideas.
• Web 2.0 is about communication and facilitating community. People
communicate.
• Web 2.0 is smart. Applications will be able to capture user knowledge and
deliver services to satisfy their needs.
• Web 2.0 is built upon Trust, whether that is trust placed in individuals, in
assertions, or in the uses and reuses of data.
3.THE WEB AS PLATFORM
Like many important concepts, Web 2.0 doesn't have a hard boundary, but
rather, a gravitational core. We can visualize Web 2.0 as a set of principles and
practices that tie together a veritable solar system of sites that demonstrate some or all
of those principles, at a varying distance from that core.
Figure 1 shows a "meme map" of Web 2.0 that was developed at a
brainstorming session during FOO Camp, a conference at O'Reilly Media. The basic
principle of web 2.0 was the web as the platform. Table 1 shows the web 2.0 services
as compared with web 1.0
Fig 1:
Web 2.0 Meme
Map
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