Web 2.0 loosely defines the resurgence of the web, following the 2000 dot com crash, and the following 3 or 4 years when business decided online was a fad.  It was all about business value, and Internet was an empty promise.
The use of web as an application was the first real shift. The second parallel shift, was the use of interaction.  There had long been talk of community, but with scale of many users, as Internet grew in the early 2000’s, grew online forums, based on common interest.
The third shift was the adoption of open source standards that reached critical mass, and the developer community behind it. Key here, were web services, and xml, that supported concepts such as tagging, ajax, microformats, openid, opml, rss, blogs, wiki’s, and in financial services, ofx, and ifx.
The convergence of these elements, web applications, interaction, and standards supported by critical mass of people online is where we are today.
HCL is one of the early movers in the Web Technologies space and is offering Web-based services for more than 8 years.  HCL, with its thought leadership on Web2.0 since its early stages, believes that:
 A single vendor offering Integrated E-business solutions from Custom built application to Best-of-breed packaged applications result in higher ROI
 Evolving Web Technology paradigms (like Web 2.0) when leveraged well can be a source of significant competitive advantage

HCL has been pioneering the thought leadership on Web2.0 since its humble beginnings, since blogs. Today, we offer FIRST2.0® - a suite of end-to-end engineering services to any software product or service company, which wants to harness the true power of the Web 2.0.
Our value proposition lies in our five-fold mantra that comprises five pillars, namely, faster time to market, Innovation Framework, Redefined User Experience, and Services on Demand and Transformational value.