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**Welcome to Web2point0wheatley: The wiki for web 2.0 tools**

What is a Wiki?
media type="file" key="Wikis in Plain English [www.icyvideo.com] (1).mp4" width="270" height="270" What IS web 2.0? If the World Wide Web is a tool that the allows the user to retrieve information, then Web 2.0 can be loosely define as a tool that is interactive between the user and the content on some level. It is a two way interaction between access and input; content collaboration is the hallmark of a web 2.0 application. The phrase was coined in 2005 by Tim O'Reilly.; you can read his blog post about the concept here.

A good example is Britannica online vs. Wikipedia. In the first example the content is stricly controlled by the 'host' and does not allow for editing or 'rmixing' by the user, while Wikipedia is almost entierely user content created.

What are web 2.0 Tools?
Loosely defined, they are FREE ONLINE WEBSITES that promote content collaboration, creation or interactivity of some sort,