Description:

The Mysterious World of Web 2.0 ebook provides an overview of Web 2.0 and ponders what it means to us as individuals. Also called social networking, Web 2.0 is a new phase of the internet: reaching out to web users for a shared experience, rather than delivery of static web pages or the one-way commentary on most blogs. Corporations are in billion-dollar bidding wars to own these online services, because the users represent massive potential revenue for advertisers. But what do these sites do? Who has time to use them, and what effect will they have on literacy and culture? This is a worldwide issue that has significant effect on what children are doing in school, how they learn, and what they will become. We need to know, but don't understand the lingo and don't have time... so here, in about 40 pages is an adult perspective on the good & bad of Web 2.0, along with some startling statistics about teen use of these sites.