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=What are Web 2.0 Tools?=

//"**Web 2.0**" refers to what is perceived as a second generation of web development and web design. It is characterized as facilitating __communication__, __information__ __sharing__, __interoperability__, __user-centered design__ and __collaboration__ on the World Wide Web. It has led to the development and evolution of web-based communities, hosted services, and web applications. Examples include social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, mashups and folksonomies.

(from// //http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0//, accessed Friday 10th July 12.16pm)

Simply, this means that these tools offer a means of interactive communication that has previously been unheard of. People can engage in any sort of interaction, without the hinderance of sending and waiting for a reply (like SMS and email).

Some commonly used web 2.0 tools that you may have heard of are:
 * * Twitter
 * Flickr
 * wordpress (creates blogs)
 * Facebook
 * MySpace
 * RSS feeds
 * Wikipedia
 * Blogs
 * YouTube
 * Teacher Tube
 * Podcasting
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 * The specific web 2.0 tools that we will look at are:
 * wikis
 * blogs