Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2016 Newsletter------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Elements of Web 2.0
� Wikis: Websites that enable users to contribute, collaborate and edit site content. Wikipedia is one of the oldest and best-known wiki-based sites.
� The increasing prevalence of Software as a Service( SaaS), web apps and cloud computing rather than locally-installed programs and services.
� Mobile computing, also known as nomadicity the trend toward users connecting from wherever they may be. That trend is enabled by the proliferation of smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices in conjunction with readily accessible Wi-Fi networks.
� Mash-ups- Web pages or applications that integrate complementary elements from two or more sources.
� Social networking: The practice of expanding the number of one ' s business and / or social contacts by making connections through individuals. Social networking sites include Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Google +
� Collaborative efforts based on the ability to reach large numbers of participants and their collective resources, such as crowdsourcing crowdfunding crowdsource testing
� User-generated content( UGC): Writing, images, audio and video content-- among other possibilities- made freely available online by the individuals who create it.
� Unified communications( UC): The integration of multiple forms of call and multimedia / cross-media messagemanagement functions controlled by an individual user for both business and social purposes.
� Social curation: The collaborative sharing of content organized around one or more particular themes or topics. Social content curation sites include Reddit Digg Pinterest Instagram
The History of Web 2.0 The foundational components of Web 2.0 are the advances enabled by Ajax and other applications such as RSS and Eclipse and the user empowerment that they support.
Darcy DiNucci, an information architecture consultant, coined the term“ Web 2.0 in her 1999 article, " Fragmented Future”:“ The Web we know now, which loads into a browser window in essentially static screenfuls, is only an embryo of the Web to come. The first glimmerings of Web 2.0 are beginning to appear, and we are just starting to see how that embryo might develop. The Web will be understood not as screenfuls of text and graphics but as a transport mechanism, the ether through which interactivity happens.”
Tim O ' Reilly is generally credited with popularizing the term, following a conference dealing with nextgeneration Web concepts and issues held by O ' Reilly Media and MediaLive International in 2004. O ' Reilly Media has subsequently been energetic about trying to copyright " Web 2.0 " and holds an annual conference of the same name.
The future of Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 Some industry pundits are already claiming that Web 2.0 is merely a transitional phase between the early days of the World Wide Web ' s existence and a more established phase they ' re calling Web 3.0, also known as the Semantic Web.
The creator of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners- Lee, suggests that the Web as a whole can be designed more intelligently to be more intuitive about how to serve a user ' s needs. Berners-Lee observes that although search engines index much of the Web ' s content, they have little ability to select the pages that a user really wants or needs. He suggests developers and authors, singly or in collaboration, can use self-descriptions or similar techniques so that new context-aware programs can better classify the information that might be relevant to a user. Web 3.0 will involve the
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