For most of us studying at QUT now, we would hardly remember what Web 1.0 was about... it seemed so long ago... a whole 4 years ago (the first Web 2.0 conference was in October of '04), when we were mere high school peasants longing for a world of freedom which would be given to us through UNIVERSITY.
When Web 1.0 was in vogue, we were consumers not produsers, like the majority of Web 2.0 users are. A produser is someone who creates online content, this could be something as simple as having a Facebook account, and also consumes. Following on from this, Web 2.0 sees outcomes remaining always unfinished, and continually under development. In contrast to Web 2.0, Web 1.0 saw a small number of people impacting content creation, information was more static.
Social software has enabled us to be socially colaborative and createDo-It-Yourself communities. Examples of these are online publishing (a.k.a the blogging phenomenon), media sharing (Flickr and YouTube) and knowledge management (wiki and del.icio.us). This is how buzz words such as 'tagging' 'podcasting' and 'blogging' were coined. As mentioned earlier, a large number of people are now becoming invovled in creating web content, social software has made this transition possible. It allows better access for collaboration.
Essentially, Web 2.0 provides a more organised and categorised option from Web 1.0. It has higher content, is more functional, hence providing a democratic, personal and DIY medium.
- natalie ... & emmy
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Good run down of 2.0. But I think that you've left out a few key characteristics of 2.0 such as the use of user-friendly interfaces based on the Ajax which radically changed the way sites were designed, presented and allowed new ways to interact with web sites and applications.
Although you touched on sites like flickr and youtube, the significance of these new types of sites is enormous and demonstrated exactly the new ways that users were interacting with the web, through the building of networks and community-generated tag database.
This idea of being able to upload as well as download to a site is a key difference between the two different versions (1.0, 2.0). interaction and the sharing of ideas = consumer generated content viewed on a site, blog, rss reader, which is then commented on, classified and tagged by a wider community, and posted to a site like dig or delicious to be discovered all over again.
Steven fry states that an idea in people's heads rather than a reality. It’s actually an idea that the reciprocity between the user and the provider is what's emphasised. In other words, genuine interactivity, if you like, simply because people can upload as well as download.
http://www.videojug.com/interview/stephen-fry-web-20
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