Needless to say, I am not all new to Web 2.0. Being a regular Internet user (surfer) I have regularly visited and used many of the sites that “qualify” as Web 2.0. So, what would be some sites that qualify as Web 2.0 (in my mind)?
There are the perennial favorites such as Digg, Del.icio.us, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr and Wikipedia. But I personally qualify even sites like Amazon, Y! Answers and Salesforce.com’s AppExchange as Web 2.0. Why? Because they do what to me Web 2.0 is all about: Democratization of the Internet. No offense to O’Reilly Media and the great minds of the Internet world; it may seem like I am disagreeing from their definition when in fact I am only building on their definition. But more on that in a future post.
Visit the sites above and familiarize yourself. You can navigate around and just browse the content. It’s like going to a new city and learning to live like the locals - you will stare at the big skyscrapers in Chicago for only so long before you just stop noticing them. The next time you are on the sites get yourself a login and post something. The best part about these sites is that some of them even give you an introduction to the people behind the sites.
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