the difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0

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Question 1: What is the difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0?

Hubpages, The Difference between Web 2.0 and Web 1.0, retrieved on 20th April 2014

Web 1.0 Web 2.0

Mostly read only Widely read-write

Company focus Community focus

Client server Peer to peer

Home pages Blogs/wikis

Owning content Sharing content

Web forms Web applications

IPOs Trade sales

Netscape Google

Directories Tagging

Page views Cost per click

Screen scraping APIs

Banner advertising Interactive advertising

Britannica online Wikipedia

HTML/Portals XML/RSS

Slow speed

Used Dialup

(approximately 128kbps) Fast speed

Used broadband

(approximately 2+mbps)

Hardware cost Bandwidth cost

Web 1.0 could be stated as the start of the evolution of World Wide Web which was introduced by Tim Burners-Lee in 1989, this was made up from web pages connected by hyperlinks and did not provide any interactive content. Users were only able to view webpages but not to contribute to the content of the webpages (closed to external editing)

Web 2.0 can be described as a World Wide Web site that uses technology beyond the static pages of earlier web 1.0. It allows users to interact and collaborate with each other in a social media such as Facebook, twitter, Myspace, etc. allowed users to read write or contribute to the content available to everyone in a user friendly way. Major feature of web 2.0 includes social networking sites, user created web sites, self-publishing platforms, tagging and social bookmarking. This was defined by Dale Dougherty in 2004 as a read-write web.

Question 2: Define each of the ...

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The university of Melbourne, wikis, blogs and web 2.0 technology, retrieved on 28th April 2014

Computing blogging, what is a blog?, retrieved on 28th April 2014

Social intelligence lab, retrieved on 28th April 2014,

< http://socialintelligencelab.com/social-intelligence/>

The rise of the networked enterprise: McKinsey, Web 2.0 finds its payday, retrieved on 30th April 2014

My Ecommerce blog, advantages of crowdsourcing, retrieved on 28th April 2014, http://www.myecommerce.biz/blog/2012/07/the-advantages-and-disadvantages-of-using-crowdsourcing-to-improve-your-ecommerce-business/

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