What is Web 2.0?
Kevin Ryan
2009

What is the Web?
a. The same as the Internet
b. Graphic parts of the Internet
c. Small part of the Internet
based on linked pages
d. Computer-based software for
creating information

Version Numbers
• Alpha (experimental)
–No version number,
or .001

Version Numbers
•Beta (testing)
0.1 to 0.9

Version Numbers
•Gold (first version)
1.0

Version Numbers
•Bug Fix
1.1 to 1.9

Version Numbers
•Second version
–2.0, 3.0, etc.

Version Numbers
•V 5.0

Version Numbers
•V 6.0

Version Numbers
•V 7.0

Version Numbers

Version Numbers
I have version 3.2 of one software. When
do I need to pay for another version?
a. Never
b. Each year
c. Version 3.3
d. Version 3.5
e. Version 4.0
f. Version 10.0

Version numbers are applied to:
a. Software
b. Documents
c. Movies
d. The Web
e. All of the above

Web 1.0
static

Typical web 1.0

Typical web 1.0

What does static mean?
• Electric
• Unchanging
• Moving from one group to
another
• Separating us from them
(uchi and soto)

What is an example of push
information?
a.Television
b.Telephone
c.Web Page
d.Book

Web 1.0
Push / Pull

Web 1.0
mp3

Web 1.0
online

Web 1.0
Home
page

Web 1.0
directories

What is a directory?
a.Movie Review
b.Telephone book
c.Web Page
d.Email message to a
group of people

Web 1.0 Logos

Web 1.0
• What best describes Web 1.0?
a. Text-based
b. Unchanging, publishing environment with
links
c. Multi-media and text mixed
d. Research and information shared
e. The world’s biggest library

Web 2.0

Web 2.0
• What best describes Web 2.0?
a. Text-based
b. Unchanging, publishing environment with
links
c. Multi-media and text mixed
d. Research and information shared
e. The world’s biggest library
f. Collaborative information environment

Web 2.0
platform

Web-based software

Web 2.0
social

Social Web Sites

Web 2.0
Sharing

Blog software

Web 2.0
tagging

Tagging websites

Web 2.0
wiki

wikipedia

Web 2.0
An attitude,
not a
technology

Web 2.0
Free
information

Creative Commons

Web 2.0
Perpetual
Beta

Beta

Google loves Beta

Web 2.0
The
Long Tail

The Long Tail

Web 2.0
RSS

RSS Feeds

Readers

Web 2.0
Literacy

Paper vs. Web 2.0
• Email
• Paper
• Web/HTML
• Pencil
• Blogs
• Book
• Wikis
• Newspaper • Video editing
• Magazine • Text messaging/IM
• Photo/video sharing
• Screencasting
• Podcasting
• Virtual worlds

New Literacies
• Identify important questions
• Locate information
• Evaluate usefulness of information
• Synthesize (put together) information to
answer a question
• Communicate answers to others

Web 2.0
old

Web 3.0
new