Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0

Some of the salient differences between the past and the present web phenomenon!

* Web 1.0 was about reading, Web 2.0 is about writing
* Web 1.0 was about companies, Web 2.0 is about communities
* Web 1.0 was about client-server, Web 2.0 is about peer to peer
* Web 1.0 was about HTML, Web 2.0 is about XML
* Web 1.0 was about home pages, Web 2.0 is about blogs
* Web 1.0 was about lectures, Web 2.0 is about conversation
* Web 1.0 was about advertising, Web 2.0 is about word of mouth
* Web 1.0 was about services sold over the web, Web 2.0 is about web services
* Web 1.0 was top-down. Web 2.0 is bottom-up.
* Web 1.0 was edited and produced. Web 2.0 is raw.
* Web 1.0 was banner ads. Web 2.0 is Adsense.
* Web 1.0 was professional. Web 2.0 is amateur.

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