If you start talking to me in scientific terms you'll definitely lose me along the way.
That is why I take advantage of every possibility I have to enrich my knowledge about it and software concepts.
And one of the latest things I founded out was what Web 2.
0 was.
Surprisingly for me I discovered it was not some sort of software but a second generation hosted service sand web-based communities.
Their purpose is to ease collaboration and sharing among users.
I always thought it suggested a version of the World Wide Web, it really isn't an update of technical specifications, but it changes how system developers use the web platform.
What is Web 2.
0.
? Well here is a list of it's characteristics that Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle used to describe it at the launching conference.
It is the web seen as a platform; data seen as the driving force; it also is effects made by an architecture of contribution; it is innovation of systems and sites realized by combining different features and software higher than the level of a single device.
Well.
Enough of all theses complicated definitions.
It is an a very sophisticated application that makes the internet work better.
I do not know about you, but for me to know this is enough.
We can say that the Web 2.
0 platform permits rich-Internet application techniques to get better the experience of the user in different browser-based applications.
The technologies let any web-page to get an update without needing to refresh the whole page.
It's like changing only one page of your website without needing to add any modification to the entire page.
And this is only one example of what it can do.
But because it has no specific "anything" it has been really criticized.
Many of the features of Web 2.
0 were fully functional when the term was launched.
So, we could say that practically the term defines a sum of characteristics of the internet.