The World Economic Forum gets together to discuss Web 2.0. Web 2.0 is the way the Web has been going these past few years. The Internet has become less of an ecommerce place, although that is certainly still there, and more of a social get together.

Social networking is a big part of Web 2.0 because it is the definition of an online get together. You can go to your social networking site and post pictures, write blogs, find friends. That's what Web 2.0 is all about.

Years ago, maybe 10 years or so, this is what the Web was all about anyway. People were putting up personal Web pages and posting pictures of their kids, pets, themselves. They were writing blogs way before the work "blog" was even a word. Back then it was called an online diary.

The difference between the way personal Web sites are done and the way blogs, social networking profiles and Online Photo albums are done now is that you don't need HTML anymore. Any newbie to the Net can create a personal Web space. HTML Web sites are still used and many people still like to code their own pages but the majority of people would rather do it the easy way, and it's really easy.

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