My impression is that the term is a buzzword without great significance, a bit like the term Grid computing.
More specifically, however, the term means "dynamic interactive" websites where parts of the web page are updated according to user activity, rather than needing to refresh the whole page - eg AJAX is a Web 2 technology, whereas CGI scripts is Web 1. But the whole thing is evolutionary anyway - Javascript has been available since 1996, so do we date Web 2 from that point? Cheers On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 12:57:57PM -0500, Robert Cordingley wrote: > For those of you who have already responded to my request (shown below), > thank you! > > I'd really like to hear from you the rest of you too - there's still 4 > days to go to put your thoughts into the mix. > > Thanks, > Robert > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: What is Web 2.0? > Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:53:22 -0500 > From: Robert Cordingley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > <[email protected]> > > > > There have been some occasions recently when a particular technology or > solution we have been looking at was referred to as "Web 2.0". Some > preliminary research on what is "Web 2.0" has only confused me some > more. So (with Steve Guerin's blessing) I decided it would be useful to > poll the FRIAM group with a few questions in an attempt to clarify the > meaning of the term. > > I hope to include a summary of the various thoughts and opinions in an > upcoming newsletter I put out. I'll post a copy here too. So, there > are only a few ground rules: > > * I won't mention names of contributors in anything I publish. > * In responding, you are letting me quote you (anonymously) and > letting me use the compiled responses, without copyright > infringement. > * Please try not to bury me with long epistles, material that is > excessively technical or laced with large doses of jargon. > * Please send your contributions directly to me at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] by September 15, 2008. > > The newsletter (http://www.cirrillian.com/newsletters.html) is free and > comes out about 4 times a year. > > So here are a few questions to get the gray matter going: > > * What was Web 1.0? > * What is Web 2.0: a technology, a style of usage, a type of > application, none of the above, all of the above? > * What will follow? > * Is there anything worth mentioning in between? > * What can your share about your profession? > > Thanks for your contributions! > > Robert Cordingley > www.cirrillian.com > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australia http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
