Vibe 2.0
Web
2.0 - Is it strictly a marketing term? Is it Google? Is it AJAX? Or is
it a wild-card to represent anything supposedly fancied as being
"COOL"? Or is it O'Reilly's way of ingratiating "We coined and hence we
are the 'O' in the Web 2.0"? Or is it someone's innovative way of
bucketing innovative technologies?
Where did this term come from ? Was there a Web 1.0, so prominent as
2.0. I did a Google Suggest for "Web 2.0" and it came back with 21
million results. Web 1.0 gave me 0 result. Going by the popular belief
of "If you don't find something on Google, it does not exist". Web 1.0
never existed and the "Web 2.0" jargon was sprinkled around, similar to
the term "Next Generation". By the way, I love this term - "Next
Generation". You want to market skunk repellents ? Don't forget to
label them as "Next Generation Skunk Repellents"
From what I gather, Web 2.0 has several connotations:
Ways of expressing your democratic self, so that even crappy blogs, such as this one, is able to reach you.
Ways of enabling sharing of services and hence revenue (Google Adsense)
Ways of mixing and matching tangentially disparate services and
packaging them (Mashups) to attain a win-win. (http://www.mywikimap.com)
Ways of collaborating and freely contributing knowledge from across the globe (http://www.wikipedia.com)
Whatever it is, I'm just loving this great new vibe in the Web. I relish
the fact that the WWW has opened up enormously and provides equal
opportunity to all. Everyone has the rights and means to participate
and contribute in their own way. Everyone can be watched, heard or
read. Everyone is empowered to have fun !
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