Thursday December 08, 2005 Web 2.0 in three words I'm going far out on a limb. Internet.next, Web 2.0, semantic web, Internet 2.0, and similar monikers are marketing names for the read-write web. The technical distinction between the read-mostly, Internet 1.0 world and the meme-space known as Web 2.0 is that all of the examples of Web 2.0 involve end users writing data to the network. Once you start creating and consuming, you're worried about metadata, relationships, rights, derivative uses, attribution, distribution and location of your bits.
Everything that Tim O'Reilly posits as Web 2.0 examples is distinguished from a Web 1.0 counterpoint as being writeable. Three words: read-write web.
If you want to hear me rant and rave about this, and the wonders of transactional semantics in the filesystem (and believe me, they're related), check out Richard Giles' I/O Podcast, which we recorded about sixteen hours ago. Richard called me via Skype; I was sitting in a Sun drop-in work center (watching my Devils lose via real-time play by play broadcast by nhl.com); the whole thing went from talking to streaming in a matter of hours.
Consumers (me) are creators (also me). Read-write. ( Dec 08 2005, 01:27:55 PM EST ) Permalink Comments [7]
Posted by David Golding on December 08, 2005 at 06:53 PM EST #
Posted by Danny on December 09, 2005 at 05:57 AM EST #
Posted by stephen ogrady on December 09, 2005 at 02:47 PM EST #
Posted by Joe Crawford on May 15, 2006 at 12:43 PM EDT #
Posted by Enterprise Web 2.0 on May 15, 2006 at 03:28 PM EDT #
Posted by Clara on May 17, 2006 at 06:38 PM EDT #
Posted by Jesse Skinner on May 27, 2006 at 07:21 PM EDT #