Web 1.0 effectively ended Friday 14 April 2000, when the Nasdaq lost nearly 10% of it’s total value - a total of 37% was lost between March 10 and April 17th. It was the end of the “Internet Bubble” and triple figure PE ratios.

Yet since the term Web 2.0 was born in 2004 we have seen an exponential rise in the value of Internet companies and Web development spend. Google for example purchased You Tube for USD$1.65 billion after ten months only of it’s inception. But what does Web 2.0 really mean?

In this months article I look at What is Web 2.0 and try and bring a grounded perspective to you.

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