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With all that Web 2.0 offers as an extension to the way you currently use the internet, you may think that it's an extremely beneficial tool. However, this is just the beginning. Since it uses the existing ways of sharing information, users will already be familiar with how Web 2.0 will work. Indeed, most users won't even notice the difference, as it will mainly be behind the scenes that the real changes are taking place – as long as they can use the likes of MySpace and Skype, consumers will be happy. For the more technically minded, Web 2.0 is a true innovation.
With applications such as the popular MapQuest, or Google Maps, users wouldn't always have to be online to benefit from the service. With Web 2.0, almost all the same features that you use when connected to the web would be available to you offline, so you could sit in your office or at home, and work out a route without even needing your connection to the internet to be on.
Other innovations work along the same lines but in reverse; so, what you would normally work on offline can be done via the internet, freeing up valuable space on your computer's memory. Take an Excel spreadsheet, for instance; the program that runs it, MS Office, eats huge chunks of your memory up. Now, thanks to Google Writely, you can put together a spreadsheet or word document online, store it, and share it as it happens with other users. For businesses, this could be a Godsend.
At the end of the day, Web 2.0 is still in its infancy so the features are still to show their strongest sides. But when you look at how far we've come with limited technology up to this point in the life of the internet, you don't have to be Einstein to see where Web 2.0 could take us.