How is Web 2.0 different from Web 1.0?

Web 2.0 offers a dynamic and interactive experiance for internet users through allowing greater participation and authority in creating, reusing and revising content.

The users involvement online is currently in a transitional movement from the read-only to a read-write environment. Web 1.0 uses the internet to display information and knowledge on static webpages. The content published on these webpages are usually created by an individuals, who whether an expert or a amatuar. Other visitors to the sitr are unable in anyway to contribute to or question the content submitted, allowing very little user generated content to be given back into the online environment. Web 2.0 however provides users with new options in contributing to the collective intelligence and allowing user-created content to thrive in online communities.

Web 2.0 has permitted new virtual cultures to emerge including social networking, knowledge management, citizen journalism, open source software development among others. All of these communities rely on user contribution to function, whether that be simply connecting with friends and family on Facebook or developing new software for other users to be continued to be bulit upon.