Interaction and Design

The term of web 2.0 was defined as “The web as a platform (O’Reilly, 2004)” at the first ‘web 2.0 conference’ preliminary opening talk by John Battelle and Tim O’Reilly, in 2004.

What does it mean?

It does not just mean offering the old application through the network like software as a service, but they indicate that “it means building applications that literally get better the more people use them, harnessing network effects not only to acquire users, but also to learn from them and build on their contributions.” in their report that was issued by web 2.0 summit.

Moreover, it has been understood among the people as web based application that allows users to have interaction such as blogs, social networking sites, video sharing sites and so on.

Good examples of web 2.0 are

1. Blog (i.e Blogger/WordPress)




Blog is not only simple article but has good interaction.

It does not sound web 2.0 if blog is just like one user post an article on the web, then all the other can read. What makes blog very interactive is that reader can leave comments on the article or use trackback and write about the article in their blog.

2.Youtube



Youtube is the one of the most popular website.

People can share the information on the web through movies. Significant point is that everyone can upload movies and watch and leave the comment interactively.

3.Facebook




Facebook is the good representation of the social-networking site.

Users can connect each other and show their thoughts and share information interactively for example, pictures and movies that they took together. Also they can make up groups and join to communicate each other.



References:
* “O’Reilly” – O’Reilly’s blog (who is associated with the term of web2.0 closely)
http://oreilly.com/
* Web2.0 summit
http://www.web2summit.com/web2009/