Web 2.0, Examples

Examples of websites that express the conventions of the second generation of the internet, Web 2.0.

DeviantART
DeviantART runs as an online art community, where members participate by uploading and displaying their original art and literacy as well as being able to sell original works, and on a personal level, provide frequent journal entries and news updates.
Interaction is continued in the community by allowing members to comment and interact with other’s and thus having over time developed DeviantART into a mass community which fuels the production of the overall site.
Link: http://www.deviantart.com/

MySpace
MySpace allows users to portray profiles of them selves in the virtual world, acting as large scale chat forum. The user participation of the site on a grand scale saw that members could interact with each other through commenting and messaging, while receiving updates of a person through such options as mood changes and blogging.
Link: http://www.myspace.com/

Youtube
Youtube was one of the first sites to develop a way for users to visually interact through video footage. The site offers the option of uploading personal videos which can then be publicly (although setting do also allow private) viewed to the world. Video uploading can include personal projects such as fan made videos and music, original art and production projects or worldwide media.
Link: http://www.youtube.com/

Blogger
One of the various sites now offered in Web 2.0 which gives the option of an online journal or diary. User interaction is achieved through the community’s function of providing it’s user with the option of regular updating with entries regarding whatever topic suited. The freedom of whatever the topic allows a mass population as many members join and read blogs for different reasons and purpose, and like most other Web 2.0 sites, Blogger allows members to interact with each other through commenting and following blogs.
Link: http://www.blogger.com/

eBay
eBay develops a Web 2.0 concept due to the fact it offer the interactive concept of buying and selling amongst it community. The notion that one can offer an item for sale or audition produces the functions the second generation web, allowing another to come along and buy or bid on the item, developing an interaction with another virtually.
Link: http://www.ebay.com.au/

vUWS
UWS’s vUWS could be addressed as an example of Web 2.0 due to its community values; the site offers interaction through the basis of educational reasoning, providing exchange of information between and amongst educators and students.
Link: http://elearning.uws.edu.au/