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Every day I’ll pick a Internet-related term and try to explain it in plain English. If you know of a term to you would like me translate from geek to English, let me know
Today’s term is a part of a series that focuses on Web 2.0 related terms

Do you have Web 2.0?

Actually, Web 2.0 really is more of a way of describing how people using the web nowadays instead of any one specific “thing” or “program” or piece of software. The term “Web 2.0″ was dreamed up by the folks at O’Reilly Media and they defined “Web 2.0″ as “second generation of web-based services“. Think blogs, think content sharing sites like Flickr for sharing photos, or YouTube for sharing videos or del.icio.us for sharing links to other sites. If you were here on the web in the early days of the Internet, you’ll remember that is was mostly static pages of information. Someone put a web site up….you would visit the page, read the information, and usually, that was the end of it.

Not so in the Web 2.0 world. If in the “Web 1.0″ world you had a web page authored by one person, in the “Web 2.0″ world you have blog written by several people. Visitors no longer just read and leave, but they also add their own comments, they may add your blog to their list of RSS feeds in their feed readers, or they may have a blog of their own and they link to your blog. You’ll have people linking to your web page and voting on how useful it is. You have people posting photos of their trip to Hawaii on the web and other people posting comments about the pictures and linking to those pictures from their blog or from their web site.

The old Web was all about making isolated web sites of information available to the world. “Web 2.0″ is all about people taking information and sharing it, adding to it, and sometimes completely changing it. While Web 1.0 was more about information, Web 2.0 is more about people and human connections.