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Web 2 and You
1 Centre for Evidence-based Child Health, Institute of Child Health, London, UK
2 Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Birmingham, UK
Correspondence to:
Ian Wacogne, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham B4 6NH, UK; ian.wacogne@bch.nhs.uk
Accepted 30 July 2007
Web 2.0 offers exciting possibilities for the readers of ADC
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If you have got past the title of this article – well done! The internet seems to delight in inventing a bewildering series of new "experiences" which serve to make most of us feel as if we’re left outside, watching some glittering procession through a dirty window. Words and phrases such as Web 2.0, Mozilla, RSS feeds, XML, and so on, serve to intensify this feeling of mystification. Here we will attempt to guide you through some of what you might find useful, and tell you about some things that we’ve been doing at ADC which may be of interest.
WHAT’S THE BIG IDEA?
There are as many definitions of Web 2.0 as there are people discussing it. The easiest way we’ve found of thinking about it is to start by understanding what Web 1.0 is. In the first version of the web, we were trying to duplicate what it was possible to do
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