Web 2.0 Development Company

Web 2.0 is a term invented by Tim O'Reilly and Dale Dougherty. It is often applied to a seeming continuing changeover of the World Wide Web from a set of websites to a full-grown computing platform serving web applications to end users. In due course Web 2.0 services are anticipated to replace desktop computing applications for many purposes.

Web 2.0 technology is a new boom technology that has led to rise in social network and online communities sharing, managing and distributing information and services globally in text, video, audio forms. Internet users play with web 2.0 technologies like on-demand video; sharing files on WWW has become easier (e.g. Youtube), to learn or gather information regarding any topic and broaden your knowledge base wikis are best source where number of users are increasing every day; podcasting and blogs help you share your knowledge and information globally and this is for mutual benefits. These web 2.0 technologies have become very popular among Internet users. Some of the additions in Web 2.0 are Google Adsense, Flickr, Wikipedia etc.

According to O'Reilly studies, we can use the following points to test a company claims that it's "Web 2.0". The more points a company scores, the more they are creditable of the name. The core skill of Web 2.0 companies:

1. Services with cost-effective scalability
2. Control over data sources that get better-off as more people use them
3. Trusting users as co-developers
4. Harness collective brainpower
5. Leveraging the long tail through customer self-service
6. Software above the level of a single device
7. Lightweight user interfaces, development models, AND business models