#4unit 1introduction to e commerce

Introduction to Web 2.0

The participatory, social second generation of the web.

Facebook as a Web 2.0 platform

Facebook lets ordinary users post messages, photos, and videos to large audiences, comment on each other's content, and join groups — a clear example of user-generated content and many-to-many communication.

Wikipedia is a wiki: thousands of volunteer editors collectively write and edit articles; WordPress and Tumblr host hundreds of millions of blogs.