Comments on: What exactly is Web 2.0

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 03:29:31 +0000

By: Tom Raftery’s I.T. views » Blog Archive » Google to release Google Office?

Tue, 04 Oct 2005 12:47:23 +0000

[...] Google Office is a logical extension of the online Web 2.0 office apps I mentioned last week. Sun bring their much vaunted StarOffice codebase to this partnership. [...]

By: Tom Raftery’s I.T. views » Blog Archive » Online Ajax Word Processors compared

Mon, 03 Oct 2005 09:52:32 +0000

[...] I have written recently about Web 2.0, and Ajax applications - well another one has appeared today, WriteBoard. [...]

By: frankp

frankp — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 14:02:59 +0000

I agree with you. But why do we need an alternative suggestion. What’s wrong with the names everybody knows and loves “the web”, “the internerd” etc…

This whole web 2.0 thing is ridiculous… everytime somebody comes up with something innovative for the interweb they’ll be “ooh ooh we just invented WEB 3.7!!!”

Hostyle: I too think this is just semantics, and pointless semantics at that.

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:16:36 +0000

I think the problem with trying to label the changes we have seen in how the web is now starting to be used is that the changes are evolutionary whereas the use of a name like Web 2.0 implies a new version of the web - as such I think it is a confusing monikor.

Unfortunately however, I don’t have any real alternative suggestion!

By: hostyle

hostyle — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 08:22:06 +0000

The web 2.0 is / will be semantic, which is what Piaras was saying (I think). Thats the only real difference IMO.

By: frankp

frankp — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 21:04:11 +0000

Tom - thanks for the Setch Godin stuff recently, I had kind of forgotten about him again. Another reason for me to use a desktop feed reader…
Anyway, he has his own definition of Web 2.0.

Though to be honest, to me it’s another term like ‘blogosphere’ which is largely useless!

By: Piaras Kelly

Piaras Kelly — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 20:33:05 +0000

To be honest when I think Web 2.0 I have a much simpler idea. Basically it’s the web working for you and living up to its moniker of being interactive. Things like being able to sign up to hundreds of sites and get content delivered to you rather than visiting each one individually or being able to get your own site in seconds thanks to Blogger means tat people can actual experience the web now.

By: Emmet

Emmet — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 18:10:11 +0000

Hi Tom,

I think the difficulty in pinning down what Web 2.0 actually is may arise from the fact that it can’t be defined by any single characteristic.

Maybe it’s got something to do with things like like APIs, Ajax, Rails, blogs, user-generated content, Web OS and folksonomies; or maybe it’s more general than that: it’s adaptation, decentralisation, emergence, openness and distribution; or is it a new attitude towards access to data: a type of mediated ‘open source content’ perhaps?

In any event, I’d be willing to plumb for Web 2.0 being all of the above… and also a retro-fitted label for something that’s more of an attitude than a technology.

By: Dave’s Rants » Meebo IM Client

Dave’s Rants » Meebo IM Client — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:48:53 +0000

[...] Tom has been talking about Web 2.0 and has even compiled a list of useful AJAX applications. The reason I’m posting though is that he missed out the coolest thing I’ve seen in a long long while. Meebo is a web-app that takes the place of your IM client. [...]