<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/18a19e13-9475-4507-b8c7-947af516c9c1/4C5DC2FF-9C43-4732-B896-7458813F1BFD/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Web_2.0&oldid=267449842" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Web_2.0&oldid=267449842" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Web_2.0&oldid=267449842"><H1 class="firstHeading" id="firstHeading">Web 2.0</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Web_2.0&oldid=267449842"><P>The term "<B>Web 2.0</B>" describes the changing trends in the use of <A title="World Wide Web" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web">World Wide Web</A> technology and <A title="Web design" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_design">web design</A> that aim to enhance <A title="Creativity" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity">creativity</A>, communications, secure information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the web. Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-culture communities and <A title="Web service" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_service">hosted services</A>, such as <A class="mw-redirect" title="Social networking sites" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networking_sites">social-networking sites</A>, <A class="mw-redirect" title="Video sharing" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_sharing">video sharing sites</A>, <A title="Wiki" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki">wikis</A>, <A title="Blog" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog">blogs</A>, and <A title="Folksonomy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy">folksonomies</A>. The term first became notable after the <A title="O'Reilly Media" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Reilly_Media">O'Reilly Media</A> Web 2.0 conference in 2004.<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-graham_0-0"><A title="" href="#cite_note-graham-0"><SPAN>[</SPAN>1<SPAN>]</SPAN></A></SUP><SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-oreilly_1-0"><A title="" href="#cite_note-oreilly-1"><SPAN>[</SPAN>2<SPAN>]</SPAN></A></SUP> Although the term suggests a new version of the <A title="World Wide Web" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web">World Wide Web</A>, it does not refer to an update to any technical specifications, but rather to changes in the ways <A title="Software developer" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_developer">software developers</A> and <A title="End-user (computer science)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-user_(computer_science)">end-users</A> utilize the Web. According to <A title="Tim O'Reilly" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_O%27Reilly">Tim O'Reilly</A>:</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4C5DC2FF-9C43-4732-B896-7458813F1BFD/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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