Characteristics of Web 2.0

1. Dynamic Contribution: Dynamic contribution is the combining of different websites for broader or deeper user interaction. For instance, google maps merged from the traditional google search software and online maps to create a new online service.

2. User Contribution: User contribution refers to contribution to a website provided by users. Wikipedia is the ideal example, considering that it’s an online encyclopaedia entirely composed to use contribution to articles. Incidentally, the sole reason why professors discourage the use of Wikipedia as a reference is because it’s a website that centers around anonymous, usually unqualified users around the globe.

3. Social Media: Social media encompasses such collective, networking websites, facebook being a great example. In social media, the public has access to create and manipulate information on a network system. Facebook does just that, with different profiles, instant messaging, e-mail, and more. Collectively, facebook is a social gathering place online, and that is what make it social media.

4. Online applications: Basically, simple use-input programs found on the internet, such as Jetman, a flash videogame that can be found on Facebook. Harnessing collective intelligence: The internet, being so globally utilized, has the potential to hold a collective intelligence. E-Bay, Google, Yahoo! – they are all examples of agents of collective intelligence. What that means is that a slew of topics from across the world is being written and posted on the internet by experts in the field.

5. Harnessing collective intelligence: The internet, being so globally utilized, has the potential to hold a collective intelligence. E-Bay, Google, Yahoo! – they are all examples of agents of collective intelligence. What that means is that a slew of topics from across the world is being written and posted on the internet by experts in the field.