M2.0 and W2.0

Mobile 2.0

Mobile 2.0, refers to a perceived next generation of mobile internet services that leverage the social web, or what some call Web 2.0. The social web includes social networking sites that emphasize collaboration and sharing amongst users. Mobile Web 2.0, with an emphasis on Web, refers to bringing Web 2.0 services to the mobile internet, i.e., accessing aspects of Web 2.0 sites from mobile internet browsers.

By contrast, Mobile 2.0 refers to services that integrate the social web with the core aspects of mobility – personal, localized, always-on and ever-present. These services are appearing on wireless devices such as Smartphones and multimedia feature phones that are capable of delivering rich, interactive services as well as being able to provide access and to the full range of mobile consumer touch points including talking, texting, capturing, sending, listening and viewing.

Characteristics of Mobile 2.0

• The social web meets mobility
• Extensive use of User-Generated Content, so that the site is owned by its contributors
• Leveraging services on the web via mashups
• Fully leveraging the mobile device, the mobile context, and delivering a rich mobile user experience
• Personal, Local, Always-on, Ever-present

http://www.slideshare.net/fling/mobile-20-design-and-develop-for-the-iphone-and-beyond-web-20-expo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_2.0

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 describes World Wide Web sites that use technology beyond the static pages of earlier Web sites. The term was coined in 1999 by Darcy DiNucci and was popularized by Tim O'Reilly at the O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in late 2004. Although Web 2.0 suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to any technical specification, but rather to cumulative changes in the way Web pages are made and used.

A Web 2.0 site may allow users to interact and collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as creators of user-generated content in a virtual community, in contrast to Web sites where people are limited to the passive viewing of content. Examples of Web 2.0 include social networking sites, blogs, wikis, folksonomies, video sharing sites, hosted services, Web applications, and mashups.

http://netforbeginners.about.com/od/w/f/web20.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0