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The proliferation of blogs like these are an activity which make up what is commonly being referred to as Web 2.0.For those of you that may feel as if you're struggling to get a grip on Web 1.0, I feel your pain.
Technology obviously moves quickly nowadays.
Blink your eyes and you've missed something.
Even now, Web 3.0 pieces are beginning to emerge from a shell.
If you felt as if you were behind before, you're now close to being almost two versions back!
Not really, though...read on.Characteristics of the Web 2.0 world began taking shape a few years ago although the seeds have been there since the birth of the Internet.
Whereas the first 10 years or so of the Internet's phenomenal growth around the world seemed to focus on getting people connected and the basic publishing of content, this new Web 2.0 phase is very much about using the Internet for sharing, collaboration and most importantly perhaps, integration.
The biggest attention-getting projects going on now are geared towards the introduction of web-based software which seamlessly interacts with other web-based software.
User-generated content (like blogs, photo galleries and video collections) are being shared and published in multiple locations.
Everything is connecting with everything else.
I was browsing around some online forums some months ago and a guy in California wrote that he was building an AJAX-driven mash-up be...
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