Web 2.0 has often been described as "the Web as platform," and if we think about the Web as a platform for interacting with content, we begin to see how it impacts design.

人们常常把Web 2.0描述为“作为平台的网络”，把网络看成是一个内容互动的平台之后，我们很容易发现这种变化对于设计的重大影响。

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One was the shift from individual computers as the "platform" for applications to the web as a whole.

其中之一是从作为应用“平台”的个体电脑向整个网络一体的转移。

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But with the rise of a plethora of other devices and the emergence of the web as a software platform, the PC now faces a struggle against its own technological offspring.

不过，随着其他设备无法控制的增长以及网络越来越多的作为软件的平台，PC现在正在面对与它自己的技术产物的竞争。

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New Mozilla-proposed APIs that advance the Web as a platform and will be submitted to the W3C for standardization.

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The term Web 2.0 describes the post-dot-com generation of sites and services that use the Web as a platform--things like Flickr, BitTorrent, tagging and RSS syndication.

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In a deeper sense, YouTube is following the classic Google strategy of using the Web as a platform to empower more developers, creating a swarm bigger than anyone else can find.

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