Re: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy... I'd love you to give us some feedback

[Richard Hyett]

Listening to a podcast last week, Gillmor Daily, here the argument being advanced was that web 2.0 was a fairly misleading term and one to avoid. It was argued that the real change occured around 2001 with XML and more recently RSS.

The community argument doesn't ring true for me, though I wish it was true. AJAX=more interaction=community, don't think so.

For me the breakthrough sites have been ebay and amazon, less community, more consumption and exchange, little person shall talk to little person.
To the friendship of the little people, rather than the english speaking people.

Richard