I was sitting in on the Dr. Anonymous blog cast radio show last night. He was interviewing Emily McGee a.k.a. crzegrl. There was many-a-subjects visited during the show. I thought I’d touch on Web 2.0.

Web 2.0, another Blogosphere ‘buzz’ word. Have you ever heard of MySpace, or Facebook? How about the word blog? (heh heh.. by the way the word BLOG comes from combining the two words weB LOG)  Well if you have, then you’re already aware of Web 2.0. It’s simply the next step in the evolution of the World Wide Web (WWW).

The internet or the world wide web or the web has grown and evolved from a simple military communication tool (which became email as it is today, to an information aggregator that has become user dominate with variations in structure, function and use. The internet went from a passive play toy to an aggressive mandatory skill.

Web Portal, Social networking and news aggregators saturate the internet highway. We used to visit web pages and now we sign-in to web sites.

Most individuals only know web 2.0, simply because web 1.0 was simply a transitory stepping stone for what everyone just expects as the ‘norm’ these days.

When I started using the internet, Yahoo was the new competitor on the market trying to vie for a position amongst the power houses of AOL and Netscape. You had to hope your area had a local dial-up connection, otherwise you’d be paying long distance charges for the phone call you made to connect to the internet.

A static web page would take 30 seconds to load using dial-up Now most of us have at the least DSL, and in the corporate world your looking at cable, T1 connections and above.

It’s a mad, mad, electronically based world out there these days. Everything from your own website to your electronic portfolio used to be an option or suggestion. Now theses things are commonplace and almost expected.

Most of us have connected using the social networking avenue, which includes the ever-so popular weB LOG. Oh, I’m sorry, I mean BLOG. The function and use of the blog today has become so popular that most forget what the heck it is. LOL. It has since evolved into a pseudo-website like arena. No longer is it just for narrating and telling your story. Now it functions like your own personal website.

Still a lil confused about web 2.0? Check out this video I found about a year ago. It does a great job of visually explaining and dissecting this awesome new animal.

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