Technology that drives the web is changing fast. Dozens of free or very low-cost interactive Web tools have emerged in recent years that enhance the ways we create and publish information and the ways we collaborate and share resources – text, images, audio and video.
This evolution of the Web is commonly known as Web 2.0. This term was first coined by the American media company O’Rieliy Media in 2003.
This blog you are reading is part of that web 2.0 evolution. So is YouTube!
Read more about web 2.0 on Wikipedia.
Here’s a cool video that I just came across on YouTube, which uses web 2.0 to show us a few things the new tools enable us to do:
My colleague Manori Wijesekera recently made a great presentation on how the development community can take advantage of web 2.0 tools in creating information products and in communicating their work to different audiences. She was speaking at TVE Asia Pacific’s regional workshop in Khao Lak, Thailand (2 – 6 July 2007), under the Saving the Planet project.
I’ll be summing up her key points in the next few days.
Open Minds! 