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According to NPD study, 98% of US Web users have the Flash Player installed, with 45%-56%(depending on region) having the latest version. Numbers vary depending on the detection scheme and research demographics.
Web 2.0, a phrase coined by O'Reilly Media in 2003 and popularized by the first Web 2.0 conference in 2004,refers to a perceived second generation of Web-based communities and hosted services such as social networking sites, wikis and folksonomies that facilitate collaboration and sharing between users. O'Reilly Media titled a series of conferences around the phrase, and it has since become widely adopted.
Though the term suggests a new version of the Web, it does not refer to an update to World Wide Web technical specifications, but to changes in the ways systems developers have used the web platform. According to Tim O'Reilly, "Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform."
The new versions of browsers and html have provided the control that the designers have been concerned about over the last 6 years (1996-2002). The designer can now position page elements with far greater freedom from the original html. The introduction of version 4 html has style sheets which can control any element on the web page even the whole web site.
For any technology that is introduced into the market place, there are usually the early adopters, the mainstream and the laggards. It may take a few more years for the web to really find it's directions into the mainstream market place in the community. Although, at the moment, there seems to be a growing hype among small businesses to have a small web site setup in addition their advertisement in the telephone directory with each business name. It is getting to the stage where business also needs a domain name before setting up a web page in order to be taken seriously on the web, ie, yourname@domain_name.com.au or www.domain_name.com.au
The W3 world view is of documents referring to each other by links. For its likeness to a spider's construction, this world is called the Web. - Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau; WorldWide Web; Sep 1992
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