Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Web 2.0

What is Web 2.0

The second generation of the World Wide Web, especially the movement away from static webpages to dynamic and shareable content and social networking.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Web_2.0

Some Examples of Web 2.0
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sourced from http://www.masternewmedia.org/web_2/web_2_examples/web2_examples_of_services_and_applications_20051006.htm

What is a wiki?
A wiki is a type of collaborative software program that typically allows web pages to be created and collaboratively edited using a common web browser. Websites running such programs are themselves referred to as wikis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_(software)

How are blogs and wikis the same? How are they different?
You can edit both Wikis and Blogs,
Blogs can be about anything
Wiki's are usually definitions

Who writes wikipedia? Do you think you can trust it? Why/why not?

Anyone cam add to Wikipedia so you may not be able to trust certain information

What is Flickr useful for?
For hosting your pictures that you may want to add to your Blog

What is delicious?Delicious
(formerly del.icio.us, pronounced "delicious") is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in 2003 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. It has more than five million users and 150 million bookmarked URLs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicious_(website)





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