What is Web 2.0?

I really want to share some of these amazing new "Web 2.0" sites with y'all readers. If you're uninitiated, Web 2.0 is defined as sites that "let people collaborate and share information online in a new way." You're all familiar with MySpace and YouTube - but they're just the tip of the iceberg. The iceberg is large, and hidden mostly under the ocean of wet webiness or something.

This is the ultimate Web 2.0 site list in existence, and here is a great Web 2.0 ranking list by marketing guru Seth Godin. Some of the sites I've been enjoying are Squidoo, Digg and Del.icio.us of which I'm attemptimg to learn the benefits as they relate to search engine marketing, SEO and SMO. I've just bought a desk microphone so that I can begin playing with Skype, and Wikipedia is an incredible resource that you may have already come across. But again - large piece of dangerous ice just out of eyeshot.

If I had to pick one that's been flying under the radar I think folks will want to check out, it's Meebo. If your company has a firewall, or IM applications have been disabled by your network administrators, stick it to them with this "web based IM that lets you log into your IM networks from any computer with a browser and internet connection with no firewall issues. It employs technologies that make it act more like a desktop application, which dramatically improves usability." Improves, usability - yet is shockingly detrimental to office productivity. Still, very neat.

The internet is still in its infancy, and it's only going to get more interesting and fun. This really is a great time to be alive, and I hope you click through and check out some of the next wave in web functionality. Even if it's just so I don't look like as much of a toolshed.