Participation Literacy

There are four concepts building the main structure of Web 2.0. The Web as a Platform and the Ajaxian Interfaces are about the environment and construction technologies; Collective Intelligence and Folksonomy are about participation and social networks. All these are essential for the Web 2.0 concept. In the following section I discuss them one by one. The order of the sections is based on a balance between intuition and rationality. The first section is Web as a Platform as it is the physical base of the whole concept. Collective Intelligence and Folksonomy are in my meaning the most important and interesting of these concepts. The Ajaxian Interface is important, but not as important as the other three.

This text is an introduction to the following articles:

• The Web as Platform
• Collective Intelligence
• Folksonomy
• Ajaxian Interfaces