WWW 2.0: Defining Features and Implict Paradigms

1. Web 2.0 users experience the internet not just as Readers but Reader-Writer-Contributors

2. Web 2.0 users, even more than 1.0 users, experience sites as location independent — as here.

3. Get others to do the work for you paradigm — Thomas Sawyer painting the fence [compare bootstraping hypertext]

4. Users like to contribute and like the visibilty that goes with contributing opinions, images, and videos. Their virtual presence online is important to them.

5. Web 2.0 users like to belong to — and help build — communities of those with the same interests.

6. User-created or user-supplemented sites show the web has increasingly become bottom-up rather than top-down [eg failure of MS Channels idea; though RSS succeeds]