1.11 Web 2.0: Going Social
The web literally exploded in the mid-to-late 1990s, but the “dot com” economic bust brought hard times in the early 2000s. The resurgence that began in 2004 or so has been named Web 2.0. Google is widely regarded as the signature company of Web 2.0. Some other companies with “Web 2.0 characteristics” are YouTube (video sharing), FaceBook (social networking), Twitter (microblogging), Groupon (social commerce), Foursquare (mobile check-in), Salesforce (business software offered as online services), Craigslist (free classified listings), Flickr (photo sharing), Second Life (a virtual world), Skype (Internet telephony) and Wikipedia (a free online encyclopedia).
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