Web 2.0: How social networking changed the Internet

by Branavan Ganesan

The most important way that social networking has changed the way we browse is that it has made it a defacto expectation that users are able to interact with and respond to content and other people, rather than merely cons...read more

by Shannon Beineke

I first explored the internet in my school library. I doubt my class suspected how essential it would become to everyday life in the years to come. For students back then, it was mostly a resource; a sort of limitless ency...read more

by John Lee

When MySpace first became a mainstream phenomenon, I didn't understand it or care enough to learn enough to understand it. I saw it as weird and impersonal; that degree of separation would surely taint any relationship es...read more

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by Jeannine Lewis

Green marketing meets Social networking. There is an interesting marriage occuring between green marketing and social networking, that looks to develop into a long and prosperous marriage. The market for green, eco-c...read more

by Kay Carbe

The Internet completely changed my life. Period. I was a divorced mother of 2 living in England at the time, and I bought a second hand computer from a friend who was upgrading and in 1998 I not only got a computer, I w...read more

by Matt Remley

Millions of people all over the world use social networking sites every day for a variety of things, ranging from self promotion to just keeping in contact with friends. Maybe it's just me, but I think that the rise of ...read more

by Melanie Grimes

Web 2.0 Web 2.0 is a term first coined by Tim O'Reilly. He describes it as a way to harness collective intelligence. The collective intelligence is created by social networking. Social networking is the grouping of indi...read more

by Jeremy A. Feliciano

Social networking has become the most effective way to interact with thousands of people at one time. The Internet has flourished with social networking sites. Revenue from advertisements has risen greatly, giving many com...read more

by Daniel J. Gansle

Many of you reading this article remember a time when your Internet experience consisted of clicking your way to CNN Headline News or Yahoo Finance. It was the mid-1990s, and the Internet boom was on. At the time, I was wo...read more