Web 2.

0 is the name used to the describe the second generation of the world wide
web, where it moved static HTML pages to a more interactive and dynamic web
experience. Web 2.0 is focused on the ability for people to collaborate and share
information online via social media, blogging and Web-based communities.
Web 2.0 signaled a change in which the world wide web became an interactive
experience between users and Web publishers, rather than the one-way conversation
that had previously existed. It also represents a more populist version of the Web,
where new tools made it possible for nearly anyone to contribute, regardless of their
technical knowledge.
The second stage of development of the Internet, characterized especially by the
change from static web pages to dynamic or user-generated content and the growth
of social media.
Web 2.0 describes any technology that allows users to directly interact and change the
content of a web page or service. This includes anything such as blogs, social networks, or
digital forums such as YouTube or Flickr. These sites make vast sums of money for dozens
of companies.
And eventually, that money making caught the eye of the major industry and cultural players
in America and now things have developed to the point of doing things it never did before.
These five innovations are not just interesting new technologies, but changes to the way we
see our lives on a daily basis:

News and politics have recently undergone their fair share of massive changes, largely in
part due to the fact that news media has been making that steady shift for the past few years.
Since the New York Times made the online jump years ago, everyone else has slowly been
moving resources to the internet. However, with Web 2.0, the internet became a central hub
for the dissemination of news to the masses. Blogging changed how politicians interacted with
their constituents and news is now presented in real time through a hundred different
resources. Anyone with a computer, can now learn about the goings on of a half a world a
way and watch their local senator's newest campaign message all in a few minutes.

Telecommunications
The changes to the phone industry have been underway since VoIP first showed up a few
years ago. This massive change to the landscape of telecommunications is a major change
in the circuit board based industry. Digital phone calls are cheaper, easier and more
customizable than traditional calls and with Web 2.0 technology more and more companies
are hopping on board and offering services to enhance that experience. For example, VoIP
users can now set up a switchboard from their computer to direct where calls are sent through
services like Grand Central or send messaged directly through their friends' blogs or social
network profiles with the click of a mouse and cheap microphone.

Entertainment has long since been the cutting edge of new technology, and while the
major companies are actually starting to fall behind a little bit, the user-generated
entertainment industry has exploded in recent years, creating mega-sites like
YouTube. Videos of ping pong ball tricks and skateboarding dogs are not the only
changes in the industry though. Musicians now create their own home videos and
utilize the internet to spread their music virally. Film companies create ad campaigns
to spread their wares, and television is now easily accessible from network websites

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and video gathering pages. Entertainment, as well as gaming has become as easily
accessible as ever and continues to grow as the studios and networks that held out
until now realize that this is the future of their industries.

Socialization
The most obvious change to the landscape thanks to Web 2.0 technologies is the
growth of social networking and the interaction methods people use. With almost 200
million users on MySpace alone and millions more on Facebook, Orkut, Hi5, Xanga,
and Twitter, there are millions of users around the world tapping into the growing
technologies presented in socializing online. This includes everything from blogging
about one's day to uploading personal profiles and comments or saving a dozen
albums of photographs to the internet for friends and family to peruse.
In Education,
Recently, dimension of education has changed as a result of technology’s rapid development.
Virtual learning environment has been growing rich while diversity of education technology
has been increasing. Change is difficult but it is probable that the rapid development and
implementation of new technologies and social changes make change in the educational
provision inevitable. Most of the universities, nowadays, are struggling to enhance the
professional experience and skills of their personnel in order to efficiently utilize the new
technologies in their teaching activities such as wikis and video conferencing as in fig. 3. The
pressure for this comes from many sources, including employers who are demanding
graduates with generic as well as domain specific skills, from students themselves who expect
using technologies in their learning, and from institutions that want to take advantage of the
opportunities afforded by the new delivery methods. The advancement in technology has been
revolutionizing the way educators teach and students learn.
Web 2.0 platforms are seen to have an emerging role to transform teaching and learning.
Specific technologies and services contributing in higher education include blogs, wikis,
syndication of content through RSS, tagbased folksonomies, social bookmarking, media
sharing, and social networking sites. There are already a growing number of actors from higher
education sector who are exploring Web 2.0 technologies in their activities with students.
It is important to realize that Web 2.0 has to share something new with higher education - the
development of a clear picture of the features that might constitute a new ICT pedagogy in the
21st century: pedagogy 2.0[41].
Some possibilities and applications of using Web 2.0 tools in the educational systems can be
summarized as follows.
In conclusion we believe that Web 2.0 will change the teaching and learning process in all
countries as Web 2.0 is the future of education.
According to the findings of this study, modern electronic financial services will depend on
Web 2.0 to be more flexible and modular, allowing capabilities to be added as and when
required on Web. SNs and Web 2.0 will represent the future of distance education and other
forms of education (web based learning, e-learning, online learning etc.). Library professionals
must useWeb 2.0 tools to offer traditional services in an innovative manner and address the
information requirements of the techno-savvy users. As well as, we believe that combining
traditional methods with novel Web 2.0 participatory tools notably strengthens participatory
urban planning and will eventually empower the role of citizens.