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What is Web 2.0?

Web 2.0 is the next generation transformation of the World Wide Web, It is neither a new technology nor a technique but a new way of thinking. 

Blog

Personal or corporate online journal that offers reporting and opinion about people, things and events.

Enterprise 2.0

The use of Web 2.0-type concepts and software (see below) within an enterprise. Enterprise 2.0 was first used by Andrew McAfee of Harvard Business School in the Spring 2006 MIT Sloan Management Review.

Mash-up

An application that pulls and displays information from multiple sources in response to user queries to deliver a customised result.

Network effect

A situation in which a product or service becomes more valuable the more people use it.

RSS

Really Simple Syndication, an online system that lets average consumers designate what news or information they want multiple sources to deliver directly to them.

Tagging

An online labelling system that lets consumers create a de facto index for the purposes of identifying and sharing content.

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 is the network as platform, spanning all connected devices; Web 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of that platform: delivering software as a continually updated service that gets better the more people use it, consuming and remixing data from multiple sources, including individual users, while providing their own data and services in a form that allows remixing by others, creating network effects through an ‘architecture of participation,’ and going beyond the page metaphor of Web 1.0 to deliver rich user experiences.”

Wiki

A collaborative website that average users can update, without a need for programming skills. Wiki is a Hawaiian word for quick.

Web 2.0’s progress is Business

• According to a survey of 2,847 executives worldwide conducted in January 2007 by McKinsey, over 80% of enterprises plan to use Web 2.0 technologies for better interactions with customers, partners and employees.
• Nearly 60% of big companies in the economist January 2007 survey say that they are, for example, inviting customers to contribute content that explains, supports, promotes or enhances their products, or that they plan to do so within the coming two years.
• Further, 47% of companies are, or are planning to, treat customers as co-developers of products that they constantly improve in a continual “beta” testing phase.
• Big business expects the repercussions of these new tools and methods to be far-reaching: 58% say that their use of the web to partner with customers will impact on some or all parts of their business.
• Companies based in countries such as the US , Germany , China , India and the UK are among the early adopters of these Web 2.0 tools and methods, according to our survey, while early-adopter

How early adopters are using Web 2.0

 
Fusis Web 2.0 Consulting

Businesses value their staff and IT should engage and empower staff to collaborate and make work easier. Allowing staff to express themselves beyond an email. Forums, blogging, wiki’s can aid information organisation. Fusis works closely with you to define your vision and strategy, and then to plan, execute, and support the implementations. Our diverse expertise in enterprise application architecture & design, SOA, software usability, strategic planning, and development methodology ensures delivery certainty.