Comparison between Web 2.0 and Web 1.0

Table 1: comparison of Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 based on the business area (Dharmesh Shah, Ilana Davidi, Yoav Shapira & Robbie Allen, 2005).


The standards of Web 2.0 are not derived from Web1.0.
Web 2.0 deals with more about business models that support Web 2.0 principles or Design Patterns (O’Reilly, 2005). Most of the Web 2.0 application support social interaction. An interaction which makes the application stronger the more users use it.
The participation of the first Web 2.0 conference in October 2004 has assembled examples of Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 applications and software. Then they came to a decision that Web 1.0 is “read only web” and web 2.0 is “wildly read-write web” (Paul Anderson, 2007, p. 4). After a long brainstorming session, they have come up with the above table.

Dharmesh Shah et al. (2005) have differentiated Web1.0 and Web 2.0 based on business areas. From the table above, you can clearly differentiate them. For example, Doubleclick is Web 1.0 in which you choose the content to put on your website. Google Adsense is Web 2.0 where Adsense reads your content in your site and then recommends Ads for your site based on your websites focus. Likewise, Kodak express is Web 1.0 where you upload your pictures to Kodak so that they can print them out for you. Flickr is Web 2.0 in which users upload and share digital photos with the Flickr community (Dharmesh Shah et al.,2005). All the Web 2.0 Websites follow certain Design Patterns, which will be explained in the coming sections.