Web 2.0 - Web 2.0 is a trend in World Wide Web technology, and web design, a second generation of web-based communities and hosted services such as social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies, which aim to facilitate creativity, collaboration, and sharing among users. (adapted from Wikipedia)
Second Life relies heavily on Social Networking but with the play of Avatars it mimics the gaming world. Educators are looking at SL as an alternate means to reach their learners, who experience challenges learning in the RL classrooms.
Since SL is relying on social networking and allows for its residents to demonstrate their creativity one can argue that this can be added to the web 2.0 technologies list, however the direction some educators are taking this makes one strongly believe this to be a part of MMORPG world.
Also after visiting several sites to learn more about Web 2.0 technologies none of them have added SL as a Web 2.0 technology. So if some of you can shed some light into this dilema that will be great.
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