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What is Web 2.0?

Web 2.0 can be defined as:

'...a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services - such as social-networking sites, wikis and folksonomies - which facilitate collaboration and sharing between users.'1

The term was coined by Dale Dougherty from O'Reilly Media.2
It is a term that includes a wide range web technologies and social networking tools that allow users to customise the information that comes to their desktop using web-based software and applications as opposed to traditional desktop based software.

References
1. Web 2.0, [Online] Available from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0 [Accessed 10th June 2008 GMT 11:25:30].

2. What is Web 2.0, [Online] Available from: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html [Accessed 10th June 2008 GMT 11:35:30].

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