W Web 2.0 - (An Overview)

This catchphrase describes the new & popular Social

engineering, networking, and bookmarking sites out

nowadays, such as MySpace, YouTube, Digg, Squidoo,

Del.icio.us, Fark, Furl, and so forth… There are Thousands of them now and

more growing every day.

They are broad in scope and purpose, but on a root level, they all exist so that

Humans can share & interact online. We find information more relavent when

coming from others like ourselves than if google just puked it out onto a page

after entering two little keywords…

Some Web 2.0 sites are great for us to market with, especially when they have a

large member database.

I have singled out many the best ones for our purposes as of June 2007, and you

can find them independently reviewed in other sections of this Encyclopedia.

See: “

Social Bookmarking

,” “

Digg

,” “

MySpace

,” “

Craigslist

,” “

Videos

,”

(YouTube)

“

Squidoo

,” and “

Yahoo! Answers

.”

Not only does the Web 2.0 grow daily, it is also CONSUMING Web 1.0. (All the

normal, non-interactive sites out there right now.) Informational websites that

used to be getting good traffic about their niche topics are being trounced in the

search engines for a new blog on the same topic... It’s happening daily, so the

best defense you can have is to upgrade your site to a web 2.0 interface yourself.

If nothing else, start a Blog. A self-hosted Wordpress blog is best, and they are

highly upgradeable.

So will Web 2.0 sites ever totally take over? Perhaps. Maybe web 3.0 will kick

their butts before it happens though.

The main thing that is holding web 2.0

progress back is that static websites are designed perfectly for eCommerce.

When’s the last time you gave your credit card to a Blog or SB site? I don’t really

see it happening anytime soon, so the business sites using Web 1.0 structure are

safe for now.