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Just An Online Minute... Web 2.0: Searching For A Definition
10/5/2006 | 
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Wendy Davis, Media Post Publications
'Everyone's heard of "Web 2.0" But many--even the people who use the term most often--are hard-pressed to articulate how "Web 2.0" differs from the Internet before 2004, when the term was coined. This morning, the Pew Internet Project, using data from research company Hitwise, had an answer. The Pew report examined exactly what, if anything, has changed. The conclusion: not much.
Many use the term "Web 2.0" to refer to the explosion of consumer-generated media--including blogs, MySpace pages, photo-sharing sites and collaborative news sites, like digg.com. But, the report notes, consumers have been creating content since the earliest days of the Web--in chatrooms, user groups and on message boards. "Would usenet groups, which rely entirely on user-generated content, but are not necessarily accessed through a Web client, be considered 1.0 or 2.0?" Pew asked.
Answering its own question, Pew states that to some extent, the terminology is irrelevant. "It doesn't really matter that this bright line has been so elusive, or that some savvy marketers simply use the label to distance themselves from the failures of Web 1.0 companies," states the report."
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