Web 2.0

Questions

What is Web 1.0?
Web 1.0 was the beginning  of web design, HTML encoding and browsers such as Netscape Navigator (Instead of Internet Explorer) and pre-google  search-engines. Because of Web 1.0 limited bandwidth, the web was usually just for reading and browsing, even audio and video content wasn't very practical. Web 1.0 was also very difficultly to use, although an exciting development it was more for the technological geeks and millionaire hobbyists.

What is Web 2.0?
In 2004 web 2.0 revolution started, thanks to things such as wikis, web-blogs (blogs), folksonomies and social-networking sites. Web 2.0 allowed ordinary users begin to write,post and publish content without the need for special software. Popular websites such as YouTube and Flickr were created with web 2.0, they are also good examples of folksonomies- social-tagging sites allow users to upload, index search out and view their own content. Facebook, Bebo (Not Now) and MySpace (Not Now) are hugely popular social-networking sites, which allow users to personalise their own profiles,generate audio-visual content,play games, join various groups and networks, and make connections with other users, whether they are strangers or old friends. According to estimates there are at least 8.5 million blogs floating around cyberspace. Wiki pages are open to allow user to edit and follow the editing of other users, and also amend their content. All these applications make web 2.0 dynamic and democratic than it's predecessor.

What does Chris Anderson say about Web 2.0?
 Web 2.0 is creating unlimited demand for almost anything and everything

What is the Long Tail?
The Long Tail is a book written Chris Anderson about why the future of business is selling less of more

What does Andrew Keen think about Web 2.0?
"Today's media is shattering the world into a billion personalized truths, each seemingly equally valid and worthwhile" He also claims that blogs often amount to veiled coporate propaganda peddled by bogus individuals; that YouTube is a site of anarchy wherein anyone can broadcast their camcorder footage with scant regard for professional ethics or media regulations; that wikipedia reflects the wisdom of the mob (in contrast to Encyclopedia Britannica); and google algorithmic logic has become the answer to anything.

What does Keen say are the problems of anonymity?
" Another nameless amateur video becomes a YouTube hit; nondescript authors masquerade as friends on the blogosphere; and sexual predators masquerade as friends on social-networking sites. Second life is perhaps the ultimate expression of keens cult of amateurish anonymity and childish escapism. To be anonymous is to be unaccountable for ones content- a worrying diversion from long-standing principles of personal responsibility and identification.
How far does Web 2.0 embody Tim Berner's Lee's original intention for the internet?

What is P2P and what impact does it have on the music industry?
P2P stands for Peer-to-Peer, file-sharing software enabled users to search out libraries of music on sites such as PirateBay and Napster (Now operating legally) Napster  allowed users to download tracks free of charge and without restriction. The new-media-enabled P2P technologies behind MP3 file-sharing effectively weakened the traditional divided between producers (industry) and consumers (audience, and forced a transformation in the circulation of media products- not just music,but films, video games tv and a whole range of other content.