The Web 2.0, phase was first coined by OReilly Media, while brainstorming ideas on next generation web-based technologies in 2003, and was popularised by the first web 2.0 conferences which took place in Amsterdam in October 2004. The concept of Web 2.0 refers to technologies that allow data to become independent of the person who produced it or the site it originated on. It deals with how information can be broken up into units that flow freely from one site to another, often in ways the producer did not foresee or intend.
Since the launch of web 2.0 it has clearly taken hold, with more than 9.5 million citations in Google. But there’s still a huge amount of disagreement about just what Web 2.0 means, with some people decrying it as a meaningless marketing buzzword, and others accepting it as the new conventional wisdom.
So what really is web 2.0?
(Tim O’Reilly) the man who coined the phrase Web 2.0 have given his own defamation of web 2.0 architecture on OReilly Radar website on October 2005, he stated the web 2.0 is the network as platform, spanning all connected devices; Web 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic...