Web 2.0 aims to enhance creativity, information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the World Wide Web through changing trends in using web technology and design. It allows for participation, interactivity, collaborative learning and social networking. Web 2.0 has core principles of many-to-many connectivity, decentralized control and being user-focused. Websites based on these Web 2.0 principles are expected to evolve over time as users make modifications.

1. Web 2.0 What’s it all about?

2. Web 2.0 is: ..a term describing changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to enhance creativity , secure information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the web. (Quote from Wikipedia)

3. Not only this but .....

4. Web 2.0 allows Participation Interactivity Collaborative Learning Social Networking

5. And.....

6. Web 2.0 also has a few core principles , these are;

7. Many to many connectivity

8. Decentralised control Decentralized systems are usually self-regulating systems found which function without an organized center or authority. A system that is decentralised lacks a nuclear body or center of control, and is commonly composed of many components which work in unison, and together form a stable structure. (Wikipedia) Decentralized Control works on the same principles.

9. User-focused

10. Not only this but Web 2.0 is....

11. Expected to evolve over time as users make modifications (Flew, 2008)

12. Websites based on the Web 2.0 principles

13. A short and sweet presentation by Claire Walton

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