Saturday, October 08, 2005

WTF is Web 2.0 ?

I've been curious about this web 2.0 thing for a while. The hype surrounding it seems to be slightly reminiscient of they Windows 2000 hype. Windows 2 what? Right. I think I smell a dot.com bubble being blown.

Ok, so really now... wtf is web 2.0? Is this going to be a modern day Stone Soup parable? It sounds like another marketing buzz word. It fits right in between 'think outside the box' and 'mission statement'.

This is what oriellynet.com said about the subject:

1. The Web As Platform
Like many important concepts, Web 2.0 doesn't have a hard boundary, but rather, a gravitational core. You can visualize Web 2.0 as a set of principles and practices that tie together a veritable solar system of sites that demonstrate some or all of those principles, at a varying distance from that core.

They even have this handy dandy visual:



Maybe I'm just daft, but web 2.0 just looks like a repackaged version of the internet that Al Gore invented in the early 80's.

Find out what it really is from the expert

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