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Five Reasons Why Web 2.0 Matters

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the best-practices-for-best-results dept.

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.'"

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  1. The chains have been broken by peterdaly · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Web 1.0 - Documents
    Web 1.5 - Documents + Web Applications that pretend to be documents
    Web 2.0 - Documents + Web applications acting like the interactive applications they are

    Web applications are now free from the "static document" paradigm that previous chained them down. The web is no longer pretending to be static. That's not to say Web 2.0 is "mature" by any means, but the groundwork as certainly been laid.

    BTW - There are a bunch of concepts and methods here that truly are revolutionary. The more I use it and understand what it means, the more I think Web 2.0 is not a bad name, and may even be justified.

    -Pete

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  2. Paul Graham by hobotron · · Score: 5, Interesting


    has a better 'Web 2.0' summary that I prefer. http://www.paulgraham.com/web20.html/

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  3. Paul Graham on Web 2.0 by putko · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Paul Graham has a new essay on this:

    Does "Web 2.0" mean anything? Till recently I thought it didn't, but the truth turns out to be more complicated. Originally, yes, it was meaningless. Now it seems to have acquired a meaning.

    He's resistant to buzzwords, so I found this interesting.

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