[1] A new kind of web sites is popping up everywhere on the net : wikis, blogs, photo-sharing applications, and the like : the so-called social networking web applications. Sometimes labelled "web2.0" web applications, they give back power to its users.
And the users like that very much : the Internet landscape is evolving, and that shows in the statistics. The Washington Post [2] reports a huge traffic increase on websites focused on social networking [3], blogging and local information.
It's interesting for the site owners too : the content is often provided by the users themselves, which even sometimes add very usefull comments. That's a win-win game. Of course, content remains of paramount importance : there's no success without original and quality content.
Refs:
- Washington Post [4] : New Trends In Online Traffic [5]
- O'Reilly [6] : What Is Web 2.0 [7]
- Wikipedia [8] : Web2.0 [9]
- Some well-known web2.0 applications:
- Blogger [10]
- GMail [11]
- Google Maps [12]
- MySpace [13]
- Wikipedia [14]
- Flickr [15]
- Digg [16]
- del.icio.us [17]
- Technorati [18]
- Basecamp [19]