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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. Why Hype 2.0 Doesn't Matter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because it's still just hype. Why was this even posted?

    1. Re:Why Hype 2.0 Doesn't Matter by dg41 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Damn, this article trips my "Business-speak Bullshit"-o-meter bad.

      Best Practices
      Feng Shui
      Ballistic Trajectory

      Jeez, might as well call it synergistic.

    2. Re:Why Hype 2.0 Doesn't Matter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      You don't have any idea what your talking about. Web 2.0 is poised to expedite e-business platforms and mesh sticky supply-chains with integrated transparent interfaces that transform visionary markets. Through iterating one-to-one paradigms, it revolutionize cross-media mindshare.

  2. This is news to me by Malc · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I've been spending a lot of time lately with folks around the mid-Atlantic region and talking to them about Web 2.0."

    Firstly that there are a lot of people on Ascension Island. Secondly that there are a lot of web type people there!

    Maybe he was referring to the Azores...

  3. Since TFA leaves out an important detail. . . by Limburgher · · Score: 5, Informative

    See this if you're confused.

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    1. Re:Since TFA leaves out an important detail. . . by Soybean47 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      So... just to clarify... "Web 2.0" is a new-ish buzzword, referring to an arbitrary stage in the natural evolution of web technology? And... you can tell which version of the web your page belongs to, primarily by measuring its level of dynamicness?*

      *I don't know if it's a word, but if not... give it time.

  4. 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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  5. Blah, blah, blah by NineNine · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's how I sumamrize this article. There's not a single nugget of real information in this article. It's a lot of marketing, blogging bullshit, which quite honestly, doesn't mean anything. "synergy" and "critical mass" and "collective intelligence" are just buzzwords with as much meaning as "Web 2.0".

    1. Re:Blah, blah, blah by gg3po · · Score: 4, Funny
      There's not a single nugget of real information in this article.

      I, on the other hand, found the article easily comphrehensible. In fact, it's pretty obvious to me that all Web 2.0 really needs is to leverage the repurposing of synergistic, best-of-breed e-markets into more scalable, cross-platform action-items, allowing us to harness the power of the aggregation of one-to-one metrics in a way that will simultaneously optimize and extend several world-class, out-of-the-box web-readiness initiatives and give us the disintermediated mindshare we're all after. What could be easier?

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  6. What the hell is Web 2.0? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Once you find out, you'll realize it's just a bunch of "synergistic ideas."

  7. No trolls?! by garcia · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Web 2.0 fundamentally revolves around us and seeks to ensure that we engage ourselves, participate and collaborate together, and mutually trust and enrich each other, even though we could be separated by the entire world geographically. And Web 2.0 gives us very specific techniques to do this and attempts to address the "people problem" directly.

    Sweet! It gets rid of trolls, uneducated users, and the typical "Dumbass Element" that prevails on the Internet?

    No? Oh, then Web 2.0 sucks just as much as "Web 1.0".

  8. My broswer's not working... by Errandboy+of+Doom · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Focus of Technology Moves To People With Web 2.0. One of the lessons the software industry relearns every generation is that it's always a people problem. It's not that people are the actual problem of course. It's when software developers naively use technology to try to solve our problems instead of addressing the underlying issues that people are actually facing. Then the wrong things inevitably happen...

    Or does someone have a link that's translated from PR bullshit to English?

  9. The real 5 reasons by winkydink · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The real 5 reasons why Web 2.0 matters:

    1. VCs can make a ton of money
    2. People with MBAs who know nothing about technology can make a ton of money
    3. VCs can make a ton of money
    4. People with MBAs who know nothing about technology can make a ton of money
    5. VCs can make a ton of money

    The average Joe will get stuck holding stock in companies with AJAX-enabled web sites for pet food sales. Joe's rationale will be the result of all of the hype he read about Web 2.0.
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  10. 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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  11. "Ballistic Trajectory" is NOT a good thing! by ScentCone · · Score: 5, Insightful

    OK, I'm not a theoretical physicist, more of the practical variety (I shoot things). Assuming we're talking about things happening down here on the planet, the term "ballistic" is generally meant to suggest "propelled with an impulse, and not guided" (like a kicked football, or a bullet). The trajectory of such items usually involves:

    1) Slowing down
    2) Dropping (literally) like a rock

    That is not the mental image I'd like to paint of some exciting new IT initiative. Honestly. Might as well say, "We've got to get in on this now! Why, this technology's going postal!"

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  12. 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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