Unlike the name suggests, the term "web 2.0" does not refer to an updated version of the world wide web; instead, it facilitates the ways in which the use of the w.w.w. has changed. According to Tim O'Reilly,
""Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform."
Personally, I did not quite understand the terminology Mr O'Reilly was using here, so my own interpretation is that web 2.0 refers to the way in which the users have now become the creaters, and that the internet has in fact become a free space. It is now somewhere to be creative as well as consuming the products of others, to share one's own opinion as well as access others. Obviously there has been changes in technology, but the basic ideas of the web remain the same, it is the way one uses them that has changed.
"Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform."
