The Ajax Myth

By Ian, on December 5th, 2006

Mis-​​​​Information Week per­petu­ates the myth that Web 2.0 is all about AJAX. The stand­first to the article lays the ground­work, sug­gesting that this is purely about tech­no­lo­gies, when surely approaches would be a better way to begin:

To bring your site into the Web 2.0 world, you need to know about Ajax, ActiveX, RSS, and other

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More than a Feeling?

By Ian, on December 3rd, 2006

Nick Carr comments today about the com­peting defin­i­tions for Web 2.0 and the use of jargon, con­cluding that at the heart of the matter is … well, nothing. Writing about Tim O’Reilly’s What is Web 2.0? essay, he states:

O’Reilly provided a series of obser­va­tions and impres­sions, and, really, that’s the best way to

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What does Web 2.0 look like?

By Ian, on November 7th, 2006

One thing you have to love about ZDNet blogger Dion Hinchcliffe are his wacky infographics.

Here’s Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 in a pretty scary nutshell:

Here’s what it all means. (I’ll comment on this when I have time to do it justice).

And here’s his flickr set of similar pics to spice up

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