Week 10 – Web 2.0

 

 

Web 2.0 was (originally) a technology I thought was going to hit us one day and everything would be different. After doing a bit of research I’ve found that it’s not quite that at all. It’s more about these small technologies like AJAX which allows the user to believe that the web is statefull. A typical example is Google’s search engine. When the user enters a string of words, a drop down list of common search topics containing the user’s string of words appear. This is done by a technology called AJAX. It sends small pieces of information to the Google servers in what’s known as a postback which then allows Google to analyse what the user has entered and therefore helping that user with their search. It’s technologies such as AJAX which have built Web 2.0 which in time will be built upon further to create Web 3.0.