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noswal
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Are there any good sites that describe what web 2.0 is? for me the article doesn't.
This is from the guys that coined the term Web 2.0 - it's as good as any place to start - http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html
I don't really see what all this Web 2.0 hype is about. 
- I don't bother visiting blogs
- I don't download MP3s or use any sort of online music service
- I don't visit sites like YouTube or MySpace.
- I don't share my photos through a service like Flickr
So in a nutshell what does Web 2.0 offer a layman like me?
- I don't bother visiting blogs
- I don't download MP3s or use any sort of online music service
- I don't visit sites like YouTube or MySpace.
- I don't share my photos through a service like Flickr
So in a nutshell what does Web 2.0 offer a layman like me?
Do you use wikipedia? Skype? Digg?I don't really see what all this Web 2.0 hype is about.
- I don't bother visiting blogs
- I don't download MP3s or use any sort of online music service
- I don't visit sites like YouTube or MySpace.
- I don't share my photos through a service like Flickr
So in a nutshell what does Web 2.0 offer a layman like me?
How about Google Docs or Google Maps?
wikipedia : sometimes
Skype : rarely
Digg : never
Google Docs : never
Google Maps : rarely
The way I see it is someone has decided to label services and Web 2.0 has nothing to do with the actual technology being used or developed.
Google wrote Maps regardless of any Web 2.0 spec or catagory, same for all the other services. Sounds like a lot of hype to me.
Hype and/or evolution? It was bound to happen - someone just named it.
Have to disagree about the technology aspect though. RSS, Ajax, user friendly URLs all represent leaps in technology.
Yeah but Web 2.0 didn't bring those things - it's just a name I guess.
Yeah, just a name but once you name it then you can own it. And then great people like Gartner analyst Charles Abrams can target "bloggers and other influential web-users" by doing this "it's possible to achieve better control over the public image of an organisation."
Now isnt that the nice kind of safe corporate web community you want to be brought up in?
Now isnt that the nice kind of safe corporate web community you want to be brought up in?