Watching Web 2.0

After posting that last post I realised it might be helpful to talk about where to look for sites like Digg, Newsvine, del.icio.us, YouTube and other types websites that feature community-created content. Some are called "social news", "social bookmarking", or "social media" sites. One thing they tend to have in common is that word "social" and another thing is that they're often referred to as being part of the Web 2.0 phenomenon. What does Web 2.0 mean? Nobody's entirely sure, but it generally refers to a 'second version' of the Web. Think blogs, Adsense, Wikipedia and all the various "social" whatevers mentioned earlier. If you really want to try to understand it, maybe this article by Tim O'Reilly will help.

If you're happy to try to understand it by looking at a lot of examples, here are some sites that can help you find them:

All Things Web 2.0
Web 2.0 List
eConsultant's Web 2.0 Directory
Seth Godin's Web 2.0 Traffic Watch List
TechCrunch

All sorts of cool Web 2.0 sites to play with in there. Have fun!