what is web 2

1. List all the ways you can think of that you can publish stuff on the Internet.
*Bebo*Blogger*Youtube*Make you own web page
2. Find a definition of Web 2 that makes sense to you and say where it came from.
Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as a platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform.
3. Give some examples of Web 2, and explain the purpose of each one.
4. Who writes wikipedia? Do you think you can trust it? Why/ why not?
Yes/because wikipedia is a good source of info for school projects ect
5. What is a wiki?
Is a web site???????????
6. How are blogs and wikis the same? How are they different?
That you can’t write on wikis?????????????
7. What is Flickr useful for?
Flickr is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community platform. In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository. As of November 2008, it claims to host more than 3 billion images.
8. What is the delicious website? What could you use it for?
A social bookmarking service.
9. What is a tag cloud? Show an example and explain what it means.
A tag cloud or word cloud (or weighted list in visual design) is a visual depiction of user-generated tags, or simply the word content of a site, used typically to describe the content of web sites. Tags are usually single words and are typically listed alphabetically, and the importance of a tag is shown with font size or color.]Thus both finding a tag by alphabet and by popularity is possible. The tags are usually hyperlinks that lead to a collection of items that are associated with a tag.