At 11:49 +0100 17/7/06, Richard Hyett wrote:
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
Wikipedia (to mention one project) is very multilingual, both in the
interface and the content. You can read the French Wikipedia with
Japanese navigation and headings, and the Greek Wikipedia with
Flemish navigation.
I guess "we are all content providers" is very Web 2.0 (in 2006) but
if like me you started in 1993 writing pages for the departmental
webpages (in my case UCL CS), then the difference is rather vacuous.
Ten years before that I writing for "Google Groups", for example net.ai
http://www.ntk.net/index.cgi?b=02002-01-11&l=54#l
More useful posts to gnu.gcc and comp.emacs followed......
"Nation shall blog peace unto nation" perhaps?
Gordo
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