It is amazing how far the internet has come; now we cannot imagine life without it. The internet continues to improve throughout the years and will not stop with how it is now. The two articles they both talk about Del.icio.us, which is a site that you are able to bookmark (Social bookmarking) a web site with comments about the website that you liked about it. At Del.icio.us allows the browsers to look up the most common tags throughout all of the pages, or you can search for sites by tags. The web 2.0 is going to play a role to higher education by several ways. One way is that we are able to connect with people that have related interest that could help you out with a topic. Another way is that we will be able to tag on a site; this will allow the surfer can read that to get a general idea of the site. Web 2.0 is going to help us in many ways and will also create the internet simpler, along with, making it easier to find information. In the article, Emerging Technology, they make a reference on how the web 2.0 compares to the web now, is like the desert and the rain forest. How web 2.0 is like the rain forest. They make the reference of how they rain forest uses the suns energy while running massive nutrient cycles, whereas the desert looses the energy that the sun produces. The web 2.0 will allow us to get e-mails and text messaging on a topic that we may need for a project, or a topic that one might like to know more about.