Why Web 2.0 Matters
Web 2.0 generally refers to a set of social, architectural, and design patterns resulting in the mass migration of business to the Internet as a platform. These patterns focus on the interaction models between communities, people, computers, and software. Human interactions are an important aspect of software architecture and, even more specifically, of the set of websites and web-based applications built around a core set of design patterns that blend the human experience with technology.
This book captures what Web 2.0 is by analyzing major changes in web resources uncontentiously deemed to be “Web 2.0” so that entrepreneurs, architects, and developers worldwide can reapply the knowledge to new business models. The format for that knowledge is expressed within this book as a set of patterns. Every website that implements Web 2.0 yields important clues regarding its core design patterns, models, and solutions that we can repurpose or leverage to solve other problems. This book lays out those patterns in such a way that readers can improve on and implement them over multiple technologies, families, and contexts.
This book often refers to “the new Internet,” a term used to include Web 2.0 design patterns and associated technical evolutions, such as the rapid adoption of broadband. The new Internet is not being built as a product of speed increases alone, though. Easy-to-use developer technologies coupled with innovative design patterns from smart entrepreneurs are ...
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