With all due respect, Pauric, I like Tim O'Reilly's vision of Web 2.0 better:
"It's really about data and who owns and controls, or gives the best access to, a class of data." All the rest is bells and whistles, much ado about nothing. Lipstick on a pig, as one clever member of this forum put it. Fashion can be timeless or ridiculous, and most of it of any era is the latter. I do like the "look and feel" presented by James Bond's example, but try to navigate schematic.com without a mouse. Design that hinders or disallows basic functionality should not be considered a step forward, but in these wild west days of Web 2.0, it often is. Google Mail is a much better example of taking Web 2.0 in a positive direction, and user response to it is proof. Suggested reading in the fiction section: "Ender's Game," by Orson Scott Card. Ender changed the world by teaching himself to think multidimensionally. Emerging technologies on the Web don't evolve in a straight line, as the Nova Spivak diagram suggests, and timelines are most useful in hindsight. A better mental model might be based on atomic models in chemistry -- the periodic table, covalent bonding, the double helix and such. Cheers, Jeff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=24104 ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
