What is Web 2.0, anyway?
InformationWeek offers up a definition for Web 2.0 that Steve Rubel says is difficult to argue with.
"Web 2.0 is all the Web sites out there that get their value from the actions of users."
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1 comments about 'What is Web 2.0, anyway?'The current web is voyeuristic - Meaning you can search and see, but the ‘searchees’ do not know who you are - yes there are some IM examples but the next generation will be much more forum oriented, open, and honest. This is akin to going into a neighborhood and looking at houses. If you have the desire, you can look through windows of homes without anyone knowing.
TO participate in Web 2.0, honesty and transparency will be required: How that honesty will be gotten and given are going to be through keys – and varying access – One might have the key to Versailles but not to my house. Keys will have value, and that will come from those who cannot get it any other way – they will have sponsors and have others of standing validate them as well.
It will in many ways resemble a real world where people have real addresses, and homes and although one can break in (as they do today), we will have police, and they will be outlawed – entities (ISPs) that allow this behavior will also be outlawed. Today it is too easy to get around those boundaries – However, in this new world, boundaries will not be completely physical; they will also include demographical and psycho-graphical boundaries.
And, just as there are ‘the wrong parts of town’ some viewers will still be attracted to the old Web 1.0. Not unlike Las Vegas or Tiajuana have on our American psyche.
James Warwick
Former CEO
Internet Press Association
Posted by Jim Warwick at September 28, 2006 12:12 AM
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