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Web 2.0 Design

The arrival of Web 2.0 was a welcome technological advance in modern Web Design.

While not easily definable, the term web 2.0 reflects a perceived ‘next generation’ of the Internet offering a more interactive and engaging experience. The concept of Web 2.0 is reputed to have begun with a brainstorming session between O’Reilly and Media Live International. They came to the conclusion that far from having “plateaued “, as many people thought, the web was more important than ever, with exciting new applications and sites popping up regularly.

The Internet has long been a relatively 2D affair – mostly text and static images. Internet users’ attention is a finite resource, and so with the advent of next gen, websites now have to evolve, adapt and be more creative in order to retain a user’s concentration.

This means that the Internet is treated as a platform rather than as simply a source of information. Arguably the first mainstream Web 2.0 application is Google Maps and the market for new Internet APIs is exploding.

The development of the Internet is particularly pertinent to online businesses, which now have a vastly increased tool set with which to attract customers. An integral component of Web 2.0 is harnessing the input of website visitors. Users can generate content for a web service in the form of blogs, feedback and reviews.
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Web 2.0

The term web2.0 was originally presented by O’Reilly Media.

“Web 2.0 is a combination of principles and practices tied together to develop a new trend in World Wide Web and web applications to encourage interactivity among users.”

Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development and evolution of web culture communities and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, video sharing sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies.

Web 2.0 basically encourages more user participation in terms of user inputs, feedbacks, and interactions. It emphasize on community building and information sharing

Characteristics of Web2.0

Web 2.0 websites allow users to do more than just retrieve information by allowing them to run software-applications entirely through a browser. Users can own the data on a Web 2.0 site and exercise control over that data.

A web2.0 website is completely interactive and dynamic with a user-friendly interface based on the latest web2.0 technologies like AJAX.

A web2.0 website implements social networking capabilities allowing users to interact with each other and create friend lists.

Web2.0 websites are democratic websites where users are able to add value by interacting with the web based application.

Such websites allow it’s users to exercise various controls over the website data and content (adding/deleting/editing content).

Examples of successful web2.0 websites

YouTube.com, Social Bookmarking site like Digg.com, MySpace.com etc.
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