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- Web 2.0 tools offer many advantages such as being user friendly, providing opportunities for rich multimedia engagement and collaboration, and allowing flexible and mobile access to information. However, they also present disadvantages such as requiring an internet connection, having issues with privacy, security and content quality control. - When first created, the web was a social medium used mainly for communication among researchers. It later became commercialized by companies focused on using it to improve existing markets, many of which failed. - Web 2.0 has returned the web to its social roots through an emphasis on collaboration and communication on platforms like social networks, though questions remain around how these platforms will generate sustainable revenue models.

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Semi On Web 2.0

- Web 2.0 tools offer many advantages such as being user friendly, providing opportunities for rich multimedia engagement and collaboration, and allowing flexible and mobile access to information. However, they also present disadvantages such as requiring an internet connection, having issues with privacy, security and content quality control. - When first created, the web was a social medium used mainly for communication among researchers. It later became commercialized by companies focused on using it to improve existing markets, many of which failed. - Web 2.0 has returned the web to its social roots through an emphasis on collaboration and communication on platforms like social networks, though questions remain around how these platforms will generate sustainable revenue models.

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Web 2.0 Advantages: -Often user friendly with most tools offering tutorials and help areas.

-The technology integration provides a blended E-learning environment opportunity with possibilities of visual (images, video) verbal (text & captions), audio, and interpersonal interaction. Learners benefit from a rich multimedia engagement where they create and collaborate using their hands and minds. -Cost efficient: Low to no cost -Real time learning that can be done at a fast pace but usually has the luxury of being self-paced -Flexible in regards to technology compatibility -Handicap accessibility opportunities -Major network of opportunities for information, shared learning, and collaboration as a learning community -Mobility: Reference the information anytime, anywhere, just by being online with no books, notebooks, scrap books, or photo albums to lug around and keep content saved online -No need to reinvent the wheel. One can join in on information and projects already in progress online instead of having to create totally new content on ones own. Aggregate resources in a common area -Real time and continuous usage -Instantaneous feedback can be gained -Ties to a global community -Creativity is implemented in developing content. -Up-to-date, current, and relevant information

Web 2.0 Disadvantages: -Requires technological device and Internet connection -Content quality is low since authenticity and exactness cannot always be trusted or verified. Its not just professionals creating content but amateurs too. -Security and Privacy issues with the extent to which users and their information are open to lurkers and hackers -The Internet has no expiration date. Content is out there once posted. -Advertisements and marketing to users -Not all browsers support all functions of Web 2.0 tools and may require software/plugin downloads -Censorship and protection of groups, especially of minors is difficult. Not everyone uses manners on the Internet. -Online tools are usually more limited than the desktop (and paid) versions of the tools -Difficulty staying on task since the multimedia rich environment offers a network to so much more than what the user needs to focus on -Resources/data can be lost if the host of the data goes down

In the beginning, the Web was social. When Sir Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, in the early 1990s, his motivation was to improve communications, mainly among researchers. On his website, Sir Tim writes, I found it frustrating that in those days, there was different information on different computers, but you had to log on to different computers to get at it. Finding out how things worked was really difficult. Often it was just easier to go and ask people when they were having coffee. As the Web became popular with people other than scientists, it was often used for personal Web pagesa very social use of the Internet. But something peculiar happened when the Web was commercialized. Because the people who built the first Web businesses were mainly the venture capitalists, consultants, and entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley, the first dot-coms were largely concerned with using the Web to improve the efficiency of existing markets for products and services like books, groceries, stocks, and software. Alas, afloat in a sea of venture capital and the cash from premature public offerings, too many such companies were themselves highly inefficient: their strategies were, in essence, to get big quickly by giving goods away for a fraction of their value. After the Internet bubble burst in 2000, all but the most profitable of these experimental ventures vanished. Since then, Web 2.0, with its emphasis on collaboration and communication, has become overwhelmingly sociala nice return to the Webs foundations. An entire generation of young people has come of age using the Internet as its dominant medium for socializing. But although tens of millions around the world use social networks like Facebook and MySpace, the future of the Web is obscure. Many people, this editor included, fret that the second Web reminds them of the first, just before the bursting of the bubble. In this issue of Technology Review, we examine how social networks might make money; why the ownership of personal data on Web 2.0 sites is so fraught an issue; and how the Internet will support the swelling tide of rich media that people are sharing. We also identify 10 Web 2.0 startups that we think are particularly promising, and visit the offices of one of our favorite new ventures, the microblogging service Twitter. Finally, we ask some of the founders of the Web and its contemporary innovators to tell us: What will be the future of the Web?

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