WHAT IS WEB 2.0?

Web2.0 is known as the participatory web. Some call it user generated or user centred web. Others say it is data driven. Tim O'Reilly, the mand credited with coining the term web2.0 has defined it as the bussiness revolution in the computer industry casued by the move to the internet as the platform. Wikipeadia is one of the graet examples of we2.0 at work.
Ethan Zuckerman of Global Voices has come up with his own name for it 'read and write web'. This is so because anyone with internet access can now create their own content and tailor pages to suit their own particular needs.

Web2.0 refers to the second generation of webbased services. It covers a wide range of applications including blogs, mashups, wikis and feeeds to social bookmarking, social networking and media sharing sites.