The document summarizes characteristics of the STOMP website as a Web 2.0 platform. It has an interactive user interface with many buttons to link to websites requiring little user effort. It also includes social networking features like user-contributed updates and ratings. STOMP harnesses collective intelligence and can be accessed directly from a browser. It is compared to the Straitstimes website, noting STOMP has higher interactivity, more pictures, a lighter approach and covers a wider range of local news topics without commercialization, while Straitstimes focuses more on international news commercially.