Greetings everyone and thanks for dropping in. I haven’t posted in a while so today I’m going to get something down just for the sake of committing something to ‘paper.’ I’m going to work on this post a little more and hopefully polish it into a pearl of perfection later.
Disclaimer: I’m going to use a lot of what other, smarter people have said to make me look, well… smart.
Today I’m talking about a concept I’m always on about, more an idea really, called Web 2.0. Now because it’s a difficult concept to explain I’m going to let Wikipedia do the talking for me. Then I’m going to use one of Web 2.0’s biggest stars YouTube to drive the nail home. Hopefully when you’re finished absorbing you’ll have a better idea of what Web 2.o is. Unfortunately for you to really understand its significance you’ll have to explore it further yourself.
So to begin I present to you Web 2.0 – Wiki Style
Web 2.0, a phrase coined by O’Reilly Media in 2004, refers to a perceived or proposed second generation of Web-based services—such as social networking sites, wikis, communication tools, and folksonomies—that emphasize online collaboration and sharing among users. O’Reilly Media, in collaboration with MediaLive International, used the phrase as a title for a series of conferences, and since 2004 some technicians and marketers have adopted the catch-phrase. Its exact meaning remains open to debate, and some experts, notably Tim Berners Lee, have questioned whether the term has meaning. – Wikipedia
so far the most compact quote we have on the topic is this…
“Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform. Chief among those rules is this: Build applications that harness network effects to get better the more people use them. (This is what I’ve elsewhere called ‘harnessing collective intelligence.’)“. – Wikipedia
and finally a fantastic Youtube video summing it all up in a very concise and visual way. Get it?
1 Comment
August 3, 2007 at 9:41 pm
What is Web 2.0 to me?
Well, being a web developer myself I think it is both exciting as well as a pain in the @rse. The rate that things keeping moving is incredible and not always very easy to follow.
There are also so many Ajax libraries available, what ever happened setting a standard?