Web 2.0
Proper noun
Meaning
Web 2.0
(Internet) The second generation of the World Wide Web, especially the movement away from static webpages to dynamic and shareable content, social networking, and online collaboration.
Coordinate terms: Web 1.0, Web 3.0
Examples
Web 1.0 was all about connecting people. It was an interactive space, and I think Web 2.0 is of course a piece of jargon, nobody even knows what it means. If Web 2.0 for you is blogs and wikis, then that is people to people. But that was what the Web was supposed to be all along.
If Web 2.0 for you is blogs and wikis, then that is people to people. But that was what the Web was supposed to be all along.
Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.
There's this large trend - I think the next trend in the Web, sort of Web 2.0 - which is to have users really express, offer, and market their own content, their own persona, their identity.
Mobile will probably disrupt much of what we know of web 2.0.