Web 2.0 is the new way to use the network. It allows the active participation of users using tools that give users own voice on the web, stating their opinion in a web space where everybody can see and comment it, managing their own content and commenting on others, and they can share information with people, make friends and communicate with them and a lot of useful applications to ease users the usage of web 2.0.
We can find several tools for web 2.0, here are the most important:
- Blogging: Blogs, wordpress.com,
- Chats: Social media chats, webchats.
- Videochats: Google talk video, Skype, Messenger.
- File sharing & mashups: Dropbox, Scribd.
- Online presentations: Slideshare, Empressr.
- Photo editing and sharing: Flickr, Picasa, Splashup, Bubbleshare.
- Social media: Facebook, Twitter, Tuenti.
- Video editing and sharing: You Tube, Justin.tv.
- Wikis: Mediawiki, Wikia.
- Information searching: Google.
These tools provide users a wide range of information, and possibilities using Web 2.0, maximizing their resources and giving users a new way to use the web.
In my opinion, the interaction between users is essential. Web 2.0 tools open a new way of use the web and participate on it with blogs, comments, discussions, photos, videos... This situation gives the web 2.0 tools an added value for users, and a new way of communication between people, without forget that web 3.0 is coming soon.
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