Everybody's been hearing about Web 2.0, and how it will change the Internet. The next generation of the web involving a more social atmosphere to the web. This article from Technology Review talks about Web 2.0, and how some people feel that it has already arrived.
What is Web 2.0? According to the article, "Web 2.0 stands for the idea that the Internet is evolving from a collection of static pages into a vehicle for software services, especially those that foster self-publishing, participation, and collaboration". The technologies for Web 2.0 involve community photo sharing (like Flickr), tags, blogs, collective editing (like Wikipedia) and social bookmarking like del.icio.us.
In fact, you see many companies embracing Web 2.0 technologies. Witness Yahoo which bought Flickr and launched Yahoo 360 for blogs and community and Yahoo My Web 2.0. So what do you think, is Web 2.0 a social phenomenon for the web? Can semantic web play a role in this web transformation and bring a collaborative and humanistic touch to the web?
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