Web 2.0 and the Cloud
For years, when companies wanted to place content on the web, they hired web developers, who created the underlying HTML documents. Through this process, the number of documents on the web exploded to billions worldwide. Web 2.0 is a term used to describe the set of tools and websites that allow users to publish content to the web without the direct use of HTML. Behind the scenes, the tools and sites build the HTML documents for the user and then upload the documents to a web server. TABLE 1-1 describes the common Web 2.0 applications.
TABLE 1-1 Common Web 2.0 sites and applications.
| Application/Site | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Blog | A web log that users can write and use to publish content directly to the web |
| Wiki | A software program ... |
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