Examples of Web 2.0

Some famous Examples of the Web 2.0 are listed below:

• Facebook an interactive social network where people must register for membership which is free, where they can then manage and organise friends, contact and send messages and upload pictures.
  
  Much like the favoured Myspace, facebook's popularity and ease of use had began to increasingly take over the generation which was once hooked on myspace.
  
  During myspace's registration boom, facebook's membership was slow, but increasingly growing at a third of the rate of myspace. Facebook was a platform which was founded by Harvard University student, Mark Zuckerberg as a membership site which was only created for the use by Harvard students, but was later opened for larger use by any university students, further then expanding to high school students and eventually anyone over 13 years old. Facebook is also the most popular site on the internet for uploading photos, with an average of 14 million uploaded daily.

• Youtube is a platform on the internet where users can upload and view videos onto a worldwide server for access by other users. Another community formed from worldwide users, Youtube follows the information sharing.
  
  Founded by three former Paypal employees, in the February of 2005, Youtube's popularity increased rapidly as there were not many video players on the internet which buffered with the quality of Youtube.
  
  According to USA TODAY, 'more than 100 million videos were being watched every day, and 2.5 billion videos were watched in June 2006. 50,000 videos were being added per day in May 2006, and this increased to 65,000 by July'.
  

• Blogger is an online blog publishing system which uses html based editing to created blogs published onto their servers, for users to share amongst other fellow bloggers.
  
  Blogger was created by Pyra Labs and was one of the earliest dedicated blog-publishing tools available online. It is commonly praised for popularising the format used today. Blogger was then acquired by Google in 2003.
  
  These are only a few examples of dedicated browser based platforms on the internet available today, which spurred from the Web 2.0 generation of developers and ideas. There are alot more out there, and many more are created each day. Some may not have the impact which the three above had, but they still utilise the same new elements which differentiate Web 1.0 pages from Web 2.0 systems.