Web 2.0: Difference between revisions

Whether Web 2.0 is substantively different from prior web technologies has been challenged by World Wide Web inventor [[Sir Tim Berners-Lee]], who describes the term as jargon.<ref name="developerWorks Interviews: Tim Berners-Lee"/> His original vision of the Web was "a collaborative medium, a place where we [could] all meet and read and write".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4132752.stm |title=Berners-Lee on the read/write web |publisher=BBC News |date=2005-08-09 |accessdate=2012-08-05}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Richardson|first=Will|title=Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms|year=2009|publisher=Corwin Press|location=California|isbn=978-1-4129-5972-8|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=sR1Asxd0JcAC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=%22a+collaborative+medium,+a+place+where+we+coild+all+meet+and+read+and+write%22&source=bl&ots=P6GuMLt2h_&sig=fsJ4NA9syRsAjypOYHOPZxiZ4hg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=PdmzUI3JPOyZ0QXt_oHgCA&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22a%20collaborative%20medium%2C%20a%20place%20where%20we%20all%20meet%20and%20read%20and%20write%22&f=false|edition=2nd|page=1}}</ref>

 

''Web 2.0'' has been pronounced several ways but the pronunciation preferred in several polls <ref name="BBC Web 2.0 poll">[http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/02/how_to_say_web_20.html]</ref> and by U.S. IT professionals <ref name="ZDnet 2.0">[http://www.zdnet.com/blog/saas/2-0-pronounced-two-point-oh/290]</ref> (where the term originated), is '''''Web two point oh''''', as "point" is the usual pronunciation for [[software versioning]].