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Oh, goody. I'm doing a presentation on what's... | by Khaar | 2007-02-16 06:22:16 |
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I wish you a lot of luck defining web2.0 (n/t) | by madjo | 2007-02-16 06:29:37 |
| Not really all that difficult. |
by Khaar |
2007-02-16 07:47:21 |
If you limit the definition to selling arguments -- let's face it, the name "Web 2.0" was brought to existance for that very purpose -- the only new addition (ignoring "perpetual beta" and other nonsense) is AJAX and even that isn't a new concept, just more usable implementation of earlier attempts. Blogs and wikis are somewhat arguable, because they aren't new (even if names are), but have been only recently made popular. Most other elements were introduced in Dot-com era and some in between and haven't changed much since.
The "2.0" part of the name is very much misleading as it implies that "Web 2.0" is the first significant improvement made since web became publicly available, but there were several other much more important improvements that preceded "Web 2.0". By my count it should have been at least v5 by now:
- hypertext: multidimensional organization of documents, crosslinking relative documents (duh)...
- databases: manageable content, web communities, basic mashups...
- structured documents, XML: separation from form, reusable content, web services, RSS precursors...
- widely available broadband: multimedia services and presentations became possible
- much more usable and widely used client-server communication without page reloads (namely AJAX) than earlier attempts: significantly more applications can be and are migrated into a web browser
Keep in mind that I'm no expert in web and I'm quite sure others could add a few additional milestones. |
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