The advent of internet was revolutionary so was the coming of web 2.0 concept. Internet has helped us to seamlessly connect with the world around us to share knowledge and information at the click of the mouse. But the internet of 80’s and early 90’s were limited to research work between universities and government departments. Though it was of great use but it did not offer any collaboration, among people. It was more of an experimental effort rather than having any commercial aspect to it. The emergence of web 2.0 has made a huge dent in the field of social collaboration scenario by allowing people to take active part in collaborative process of generating content and sharing it with others.

India was a late adopter of web 2.0 concepts, in the early 21st century, when the world was adopting social collaboration platform with open arms, India was still skeptical about it. The community websites and web 2.0 developments were still at the nascent stage. But with the passage of time and availability of latest technologies things have improved for better. Now more and more community websites are coming up in India and people are taking social collaboration in a big way. Website providing solution to open source technologies, blogging websites, shopping guide, community chat networks, music and video download services websites are growing exponentially. The user-generated content is the cornerstone for the rise of the community sites which allows users to use internet as a tool to communicate, exchange ideas, pictures and more. Some of the major social collaborative websites are Wikipedia, YouTube, live journal etc that has changed the sphere of knowledge and information sharing capacity among users all over the world. It is believed that India with its more than a billion populations will offer significant contribution to the world in the metamorphosis of the next generation of social community platform. Though it is quiet early to comment on this but the prospects seems very bright for Indian internet users.