What is meant by World Wide Web 2.0?

ANd what are the negative / cynical connotations with it?

What is meant by World Wide Web 2.0?
Web 2.0 is a trend in World Wide Web technology, and web design, a second generation of web-based communities and hosted services such as social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies, which aim to facilitate creativity, collaboration, and sharing among users. The term became notable after the first O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in 2004. Although the term suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to any technical specifications, but to changes in the ways software developers and end-users use webs
Reply:they are closing down the internet (inc Yahoo answers) then they will release another Web... imagine a spider building 2 webs, then destorys the first web
Reply:The worldwide web 1, was only about visiting and nth else. I mean you could visit the website and no comments or videos or any thing that YOU can do in that site.





But the worldwide web 2, Isn't only about visiting, but also your points, your uploads, your videos and ....





The worldwide web 3, which is coming in the next few years, understands what you mean about the words you type.





For example in worldwide web 2, when you are googling and write the word "food" to search for, google doesn't know what you mean about the word "food". It just searches for the word "food" in the text's of different websites.


But in worldwide web 3, It understands the meaning of the word you typed. So your search is going to be so much different than before, with the related websites.


And the other options are like 3d websites, talking to websites and...





Hope to see you on worldwide web 3
Reply:Web 2.0





You create the content, they make the profits.





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2
Reply:world wide web 2.0 is the advanced technology of today's Internet, incorporating more interactive and participatory applications and user-generated content.


In other ways u can understand it like the advanced version of world wide web..
Reply:Web 2.0 is a concept. Sites such as facebook and myspace are web 2.0. Its people getting answers from each other. It not a great term as how long untill some says im web 3.0 4.0 it will never stop. Just go with flow a bit
Reply:www is the internet, for example if someone says to you are you on the web (internet)