10 definitions of Web 2.0 and their shortcomings

By Ian, on August 17th, 2006

I have come to avoid talking about this stuff with people. The first question anyone asks me is “what is Web 2.0?” Unfortunately for the ensuing con­ver­sa­tion, it’s a little tricky to provide a straight answer. Every time you find a neat expres­sion for summing the whole Web 2.0 thing up, I imme­di­ately think of an excep­tion, or three,

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The Tim O’Reilly interview

By Ian, on August 7th, 2006

I’d been hoping to inter­view Tim O’Reilly since starting work on the book. As the person widely recog­nised as having coined the expres­sion ‘Web 2.0′, I wanted to know more about what he thought of the way it was all going. He’s a nice guy to talk to, by the way. He’s better humoured, but also grumpier

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