Comments on: What Web 2.0 Really Means

By: Nabeel

Nabeel — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:04:27 +0000

If you want to know what Web 2.0 means, just read it from the horses mouth:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html

Tim invented the term, so he should know.

And despite what someone says above, AJAX is related to Web 2.0 (although not inherent or necessary). That is because Web 2.0 is about using the web as a platform, instead of a pipe for content (broadcast). Ajax makes this simpler.

By: Naveena Swamy

Naveena Swamy — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:07:10 +0000

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By: Juuso - Game Producer

Juuso - Game Producer — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 06:50:27 +0000

@Hanford: There was some stuff mentioned in that O’Reilly article that mentioned:
“AJAX is also a key component of Web 2.0 applications such as Flickr, now part of Yahoo!, 37signals’ applications basecamp and backpack, as well as other Google applications”
I believe that the main idea is not the technology like you said – but to provide “rich user experiences”: smoother and easier than traditional HTML pages. So while technology is not necessarily the driving force, I think it has its role in Web 2.0 world: to enhance that user experience.

And as mentioned: there’s no right or wrong answer here (well, not for me anyway :) and I’m not saying that the stuff I write here would necessarily be “the way it is”. I’m simply suggesting that many Web 2.0 applications use bit more elegant technologies.

By: Hanford

Hanford — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 04:37:24 +0000

I don’t think web2.0 has anything to do with the technology (AJAX, CSS, etc). Web2.0 is about community and about end-user empowerment.

Blogs are a great example. Blog sites let anyone be an author, and blog comments empower the end-user (the readers) and give them a voice. Flickr and Youtube make the user’s content the star. Amazon understood the power of this in the first wave and pioneered user reviews, ratings, and overall community building.

By: swordfish

swordfish — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:28:54 +0000

I like to look at Web 2.0 as all of the technology and standards that define the new face of the web. For example: CSS divs vs. HTML tables; Using AJAX instead of some inefficient method; Usability vs. nobody cares; User-generated content vs. don’t trust users; SEO/SEM vs. my website is my business card. My Web 2.0 is a departure from all things old for something new and more interesting.