The term web 2.0 was invented by Tim O’Reilly in the year 2004 in order to refer to a second generation in the history of the web, based on user communities and some special services, such as social nets, blogs, wikies or the folcosonomies, which provide the colaboration and easy exchange of information between the users.
The original concept of the context, called Web 1.0, were static HTML pages which weren’t updated frequently. The dot-com’s success depended on more dynamic web, sometimes called Web 1.5, where the CMS (Content Management System) pages were updated from an updated database. In both senses, getting hits or visits and the vicual aesthetics were considered as very important factors.
The providers of the Web 2.0 think that the use of the web is focused on the interaction of social nets, even if the pages are visual and interactive or not. They act more like meeting places than as if they were traditional web pages.
Sometimes the term We 2.0 has been relationed with the semanthic web. But both concepts belong more likely to the evolutive aspects of the web, and the semantic web belongs more to a further evolution, the Web 3.0, the intelligent web. SO we can identify the semanthic web as a form of Web 3.0. There is a fundamental difference between both versions of the net (2.0 and semanthic) and is the type of participant and the tools used. The 2.0 has a principal protagonist the human user who writes articles on a blog or collaborates in a wiki.
Information Source:
Web 2.0. (2009, 7) de febrero. Wikipedia, La enciclopedia libre. Fecha de consulta: 13:37, enero 9, 2009 from http://es.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Web_2.0&oldid=23922705.
