Five Reasons Why Web 2.0 Matters

jg21 writes "Dion Hinchcliffe, who is becoming the closest thing outside of Tim O'Reilly to being a Web.2.0 popularizer and evangelist, has summarized what he considers to be the five major benefits of Web 2.0 best practices. Hinchcliffe singles out the tactical potential of aligning with Web 2.0's increasingly ballistic trajectory: 'You can use the leviathan forces of attention and enthusiasm that are swirling around Web 2.0 these days as a powerful enabler to make something important and exciting happen in your organization.'"

Comments

Since TFA leaves out an important detail. . .

[Limburgher]

See this if you're confused.

Re:Why Hype 2.0 Doesn't Matter

[luvirini]

Damm.. did not get a line on bullshit bingo (http://www.bullshitbingo.net/cards/bullshit/) got close but no cigarr.. he still needs to add few buzzwords...

Re:Paul Graham

[ggvaidya]

Fixed link: http://www.paulgraham.com/web20.html

Re:Good but will it be adopted

[rblum]

You *are* aware that browser-related part of Web 2.0 is heavily built on top of AJAX, which uses XmlHttpRequest, which was *introduced* by Microsoft, right? FF was the one catching up....

Re:This is news to me

[Chris Bradshaw]

Your post was funny, however; for those who don't know, the Mid-Atlantic region (in U.S terms) referes to Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, D.C., West Virginia, and Virginia...

More info can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_States

Re:Why Hype 2.0 Doesn't Matter

[Anonymous Coward]

Or perhaps the sense here is that a 'quantum leap' is a transition between two different and separate discrete states, rather than a continuous transition between two states...

This would fit most of the situations in which the phraase is used - not that it makes me like it any more.