In the opening talk of the
first Web 2.0 conference,
Tim O'Reilly and
John Battelle summarized key principles of Web 2.0 applications:
-- the web as a
platform-- data as the driving force
--
network effects created by an
architecture of participation-- innovation in
assembly of systems and sites composed by pulling together features from distributed, independent developers (a kind of "open source" development)
-- lightweight
business models enabled by content and service syndication
-- the end of the software adoption cycle ("the perpetual beta")
-- software above the level of a single device, leveraging the power of
The Long Tail.
-- easy to pick up by early adopters
[Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2]
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