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The Best of Web 2.0

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the so-shiny-and-useable dept.

Fennie writes "Designtechnica has published their 2006 Best of Web 2.0 list. Some of the sites include Flickr.com, Vimeo.com and Writeboard.com. From the piece: 'The next generation of the web is here! With new kinds of desktop-like applications being released left and right, how will you know where to go and what to use? That's why we're here: To show you the best of Web 2.0 sites that you can get the most out of. No matter the task, video, audio, or photos, we have a site that works great for what you want to do and uses all the great features of Web 2.0 technology.'"

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  1. Worst Piece of Jargon by ARRRLovin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    1) Web 2.0

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  2. I'd be more interested.. by Mowie_X · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ..in a best of developer technology list..
    Stuff like AJAX, .NET Fx, Rails that is really making developing for the web much more fun.

  3. AJAXify by MyNymWasTaken · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Does a boring, old "Web 1.0" site become an Exciting, Hip, New & Improved Web 2.0 site just by using a little CSS & the XMLHttpRequest, er... sorry..., AJAX?

  4. Digg... by Eightyford · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just don't say Digg! It's like reading Slashdot with the filter set at -1. Only worse.

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  5. Web 2.0? by jd · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I never use something that has a version number ending in .0! That's always the buggy release. Besides, I've yet to hear of a single "feature" of this purported 2.0 that wasn't being done with HyperCard and couldn't have been done on Ted Nielson's Xanadu (if anyone had developed it). I see no reason to dignify bugfixes with a change in the major version number.


    "But what about blogs?" What about them? People were writing diaries on USENET long before the CERN webserver ever came out. (Was CERN Web 0.0? And would NCSA or Apache be considered 1.0?) Cross-referencing and searches existed in Gopher and WAIS.


    "Dynamic HTML?" There were perl scripts for emedding msql queries (not MySQL - msql) into web pages long before anyone had imagined you'd be doing anything other than CGI and many years before HTML 3 came out. Indeed, if you want merely programmable web pages (not database-generated pages) then the mere existance of CGI is enough.


    "User-defined web pages" Oracle's "Powerbrowser" included a built-in web server which could serve a limited number of pages to external users. That was back in 1996, if I recall correctly.


    Let me know when something worthy of a "Web 2.0" comes out, and THEN I'll pay attention.

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  6. Re:People use these? QWZX by CaymanIslandCarpedie · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You'd think Slashdot would be full of people interested in innovation, not the other way around

    For the most part people here are VERY interested in technological innovation. Problem is, "Web 2.0" is at least decade old technology. You'll find here people aren't too excited about marketing droids going on and on about faux innovation, however any real innovation is another story.

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