Explaining Web 2.0

[serox]

Resourceful Idiot has posted an article finally describing what it means to be a Web 2.0 application. This was posted in response to the high misuse and overall misunderstandings of this huge buzzword. Yes, I did write it but I felt like sharing :)

It seems that everyone has their own idea of what Web 2.0 means.That is one of the pitfalls to using a single buzzword to define everything you see on the internet. I have heard people describing nearly every new website as being Web 2.0 as if it was describing the launch date of a site. The term ironically is the most popular category on Resourceful Idiot. In leu of this, I am going to finally give you the definition of Web 2.0 and the principles that define it.

Full Article: http://www.resourcefulidiot.com/2008/05/ex...-web-20-web-30/

Source: http://www.resourcefulidiot.com

[Echilon]

I hate the phrase. Web 3.0 I've never heard before, but it just sounds ridiculous to me.

[serox]

I hate the phrase. Web 3.0 I've never heard before, but it just sounds ridiculous to me.

This is off topic but what was that show called from your avatar? "Not the mama"

[Swiftie]

This is off topic but what was that show called from your avatar? "Not the mama"

Dinosaurs?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaurs_(TV_series)

[serox]

Dinosaurs?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaurs_(TV_series)

thats it! thanks :)

[Fourjays Veteran]

Resourceful Idiot has posted an article finally describing what it means to be a Web 2.0 application.

You make it sound like it's the first article to "define" "Web 2.0". :rolleyes:

It's not a very clear article and it seems like it is trying to define the undefinable, which is pretty much the only "definition" "Web 2.0" can be safely given in my opinion - undefinable.

I think different people have different views of what "Web 2.0" is and personally, I think of it as a sort of philosophy rather than a definition.

Providing you don't think "Web 2.0" is just shiny button graphics, you're along the right tracks though. :laugh: