Web 2.0 x

Web 2.0 is a term describing changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to enhance creativity,

Web 2.0 allows users to do more than just retrieve information and allows users to run software-applications entirely through a browser.

Facts:

• 74%: The number of CIOs who say the advent of so-called Web 2.0 applications will significantly increase their security risk over the next three years (CIO Insight);
  



• 12%: The number of US online consumers using RSS (Jupiter Research);
  



• 12 million: The number of households that will regularly subscribe to podcasts by 2010 (Forrester Research);
  



• 52.4 million: The number of blogs tracked by Technorati as of August 2006 (Technorati);
  



• 67,000: The number of new blog entries posted each hour (Technorati);