Everyone is talking about Web 2.0 these days. Honestly, I don’t really like to use that term a lot as it has been overused and has, in my opinion, kinda lost its meaning.
Today, Web 2.0 can mean anything - video content, social networking, social news, social bookmarking, Ajax, Prototype libraries, JSON, accordion visual effects, mash-ups, Ruby on Rails, XML, and whatever.
It’s a marketing term for any webservice that is published after 2005. Google managed to revolutionize the way people understand ‘beta’. Today, some products is following some sort of a perpectual beta idea, meaning it’s just beta forever. That, once again, is pure marketing.
(Facebook has communities for Web 2.0, Web 3.0, Web 4.0, Web 5.0 and in case you haven’t noticed - Web �??.0.)
Has the web really changed that much? Sure it has, but it didn’t just come overnight. It came a long way and Web 2.0 describes the awakening - the awakening of ordinary people such as my mom and my elephant - and the reintroduction of these technologies. Magazines that cover whatever Web 2.0 ideas are selling like hotcakes and if you actually read a couple of them you’ll realize none is particularly clear of what Web 2.0 is.
Because it just is so many things! But ultimately, I think Web 2.0 is about you and me addicted to connecting and sharing information. It’s as if we allow ourselves to be part of a whole movement. Just thinking of that scares me, but the thought never fails to make me tingle with excitement.
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I was having a chat with webzoomr that day, regarding how Web 2.0 can help in our traditional business environment. I must say, the possibilities are fairly attractive. As I see it (as a non-IT person in a non-IT profession), it does add an extra element in management just like an value-added service.
Yet, I can’t quite define what is Web 2.0 ultimately. Not to the general public like me at least. I think if I were to implement something like this, it has to be substantial to the point that it improves the working procedures or simply, generation of revenue. When it gets too complex, will the general public want it enough to use it? Will we be looking at a circuit where geeks bury themselves in… sorta like an internal affair?
by ET (Aug 18, 2007 at 10 AM)Woah! You’ve got a scary avatar. Tech-inclined people are always having this tendency of creating applications that only they themselves find it ‘user-friendly’. It doesn’t hurt to be a bit more objective and try to think alongside the regular consumer. It’s great to see better tools being rolled out, the web is become more userfriendly than, say, 2 years ago. And that itself, I feel, is more important than whatever Web 2.0
by Mr. Dew (Aug 26, 2007 at 10 AM)