What Is Web 2.0?

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Unlike  traditional websites, where information is passed from the webmaster to the visitor, Web 2.0 sites are more user friendly, encouraging the public or community members to provide the content or primary information for the site. This type of site is established to help promote the creation of knowledge rich communities on the web.

Some common terms associated with Web 2.0 include, “wikis,” “podcast,” “social bookmarking,” and “RSS feeds,” to name a few. These sites offer greater functional ability and control on the end-user end, through a plaform that allows users to log in and share, edit and control much of the information dispalyed on the sites.

Many, including expert internet marketer and problogger, note this new approach to the Web allows for the use of the Web as a platform, one that supports participation and the assembly of system within sites.

Features common to many of these sites include:

• Using the network as a platform – where users can access applications through their internet browser.
• Use of user-controlled data – where all end-users have the ability to control, edit and delete data on the site.
• “Architecture of participation” – referring to the ability of users to add to applications so there is greater participatio  among community members involved with the site. This contrast sharply with most traditional web platforms, which utilize an ” access-control” type infrastructure.
• Interactive, social-networking capabilities – allowing greater functionality and a friendlier user interface.

My Thought

I believe Web 2.0 is the best place for us as a blogger to promote our blog. Web 2.0 can be a place which we can publish a summary of our best article there plus we can get quality backlink from it. Besides, there are a lot of things we can do using web 2.0 even we can promote affiliate product too.

My question is, have you use Web 2.0 to promote your site? Because I did and it worked.