Tim O’Reilly’s essay defining the features of Web 2.0 is quite candid about the roots of the term. They were going to do a conference about all this new stuff that was happening on the internet, and they needed a name for it. This original definition is a lot more embracing than many subsequent ones. Indeed, according to
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I’ve been doing a lot of interviews over the last couple of weeks about web 2.0. One example of where the web is utterly rubbish is buying train tickets in the UK. Train tickets in the UK are utterly screwed in many ways. Basically, you have to try half a dozen different ways of communicating with the Just talked to David Cruickshank, who’s the creator of businessitonline. Nice set of web applications for running a small business (UK forms only at the moment) that is free for up to 2 users. Seems like a very nice bloke and I wish him a lot of luck. Link The key to success — make your site as ugly as possible…Vitamin Features » The MySpace problem: When it comes to some of the web’s most popular sites — is their success because of or in spite of ‘ugly’ design?In his 2004 AIGA magazine piece It’s Good to Be Bad, David Volgler observed a troubling Marc Fawzi makes an interesting point about web 2.0 society Fact: trusted individuals are once again the source of news in a society (bloggers) Fact: word of mouth is once again how news spreads (viral marketing) Fact: people once again hunt and gather in a group (del.icio.us) Fact: people once again group things using words like Hmm.. hype or reality? Seems like the average startup fades from view disturbingly quickly…Basement.org: Reality Check 2.0: Does anybody out there use Rollyo? How about Newsvine? 30 Boxes? I’m not going to even bother asking if anyone has a Eurekster Swicki up (or what exactly a Swicki is for that matter). I think it’s really important |             | |||
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