Comments on: What is This Web 2.0 Thing, Anyway?

By: Jon Paul Janze

Jon Paul Janze — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 05:40:37 +0000

Web 2.0 represents a new shift in the usefulness of the internet and internet applications. It is not revolutionary moment in time marked by a particular event or product launch; rather it is an evolution marked more by the dogged efforts of many individuals and groups across the internet to make it BETTER.
Donâ��t get me wrong web 1.0 is still around and will be for much longer, it’s just that web 2.0 is finally hitting the mainstream.
Most mainstream users won’t know they are now ‘web 2.0 enabled’, they will just eventually figure out that what they are doing is now ‘easier, faster, better’ or that some new functionality is now available, some creative new idea has finally landed.

For more, try - http://www.harostreetmedia.com/node/24

By: Easton Ellsworth

Easton Ellsworth — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 00:27:17 +0000

The blog network I work for, Know More Media, exemplifies the shift from “Web 1.0″ to “Web 2.0″ quite nicely, in my opinion. Before, I wrote Web articles for static sites for Tornado Solutions (sort of the precursor to Know More Media). The articles, while informative, didn’t allow user comments and didn’t specify what date they were published. The sites lacked that participatory magic that “Web 2.0″ captures. So now I feel great to be part of an improved, more collective and less individual experience.

By: Michael Almond

Michael Almond — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 03:15:59 +0000

All of a sudden, the “Blogoshere,” a name that is so utterly silly, I have difficulty giving it the hate it truly deserves, is alive and kicking with discussions about â��Web 2.0,â�� a name that is so utterly hate-able, I even hate it’s silliness.

Now, despite my quite restraint, I think this is actually an important moment to take note of in the evolution of the Web and in our understanding of it’s potential uses.

It’s a positive step and in an ideal world, the name would reflect this, instead of suggesting that the much dreaded hype we participated in not so long ago, is back. But this time it’s just a little bit better.

In truth, the journey is better described as a series of incremental steps. This is easy to confuse by Web Professionals because we are just discovering a fundamental and enduring quality inherent in the Web’s design: it’s value as a social tool.

By: Brian Alger

Brian Alger — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 11:13:50 +0000

I like the points you are making here. I agree that there is some value in the ideas behind Web 2.0. As you have said, it is also a direct extension of some very old ideas relating to collaboration. Too often the hype surrounding a “new” development often turns out to be something less than new. The word “extension” makes far more sense. While there may be a modest degree of added value, the underlying assumptions behind this notion called Web 2.0 are not new. Tagging, feeds and comments offer a variation on web interaction, but quality of thought and expression will remain the basis for creating real value.

By: Dave Taylor

Dave Taylor — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 06:22:10 +0000

Here’s what I find puzzling about this: software evolves, even on a daily basis. Given that, what sense does it make to mark an arbitrary point in time and say “any features subsequent to this point are 2.0″? Baffling..