What is Web 2.0: Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software

Communications & Strategies, No. 1, p. 17, First Quarter 2007

21 Pages Posted: 22 Aug 2007

Abstract

This paper was the first initiative to try to define Web 2.0 and understand its implications for the next generation of software, looking at both design patterns and business modes. Web 2.0 is the network as platform, spanning all connected devices; Web 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of that platform: delivering software as a continually-updated service that gets better the more people use it, consuming and remixing data from multiple sources, including individual users, while providing their own data and services in a form that allows remixing by others, creating network effects through an architecture of participation, and going beyond the page metaphor of Web 1.0 to deliver rich user experiences.

Keywords: collective intelligence, rich client, data, software as a service, long tail and beta

JEL Classification: K21, K23, L41, L43, L96, C78, H42

Suggested Citation

O'Reilly, Tim, What is Web 2.0: Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software. Communications & Strategies, No. 1, p. 17, First Quarter 2007, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1008839

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