After reading "What Is Web 2.0: Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software," O'Reilly talks about seven different principles that make up the Web 2.0. On page two of the article the second principle is that Web 2.0 harnesses collective intelligence. I think that this means that the web no longer displays information that is published by certain media agencies, such as Web 1.0 previously did, and that information is currently being created by users of Web 2.0 themselves. Today you can find SO much information that covers about any topic you can think of. Practically anything you want to find information on, you can these days! Anyone can view O’Reilly’s article at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0
One website that comes to my mind when thinking about this is Wikipedia. Wikipedia can be found at http://www.wikipedia.org/. At this website you can find all kinds of information, add information to existing documents, and even edit information. Wikipedia is an on-line encyclopedia that is always changing, as things in the world around us are constantly doing. O'Reilly states that the lesson here is "Network effects from user contributions are the key to market dominance in the Web 2.0 era." (p.2)
Another great example that fits O’Reilly’s suggestions is Yahoo or Google. These both began as a way for millions of internet users to easily find information on a particular topic, but now has since developed numerous topics with a wide range of information to be collected. Both of these search engines are very popular and produce such a wide range of information to users that its limits are near impossible. Yahoo can be found at: http://www.yahoo.com/ and Google can be found at: http://www.google.com/.
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