The State of Web 2.0, The Future of Web Software

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday April 3, 2006 @03:35AM from the navel-gazing-or-does-it-truly-matter dept.

SphereOfInfluence writes "Despite some disdain for the term Web 2.0, the underlying ideas seem to be genuinely taking off from the seed of successful techniques of the first generation of the Web. Here's an in-depth review of the future of Web 2.0 and online software from Web 2.0 proponent, Dion Hinchcliffe. Like or hate the term, the actual ideas in Web 2.0 are turning out to not only usable but a growing cadre of companies are actively being successful with them. This includes the Ajax phenomenon being actively pursued by Microsoft and Google, widespread social software, and massive online communities like MySpace. These trends are all leading to predictions on the ultimate fallout of these changes, something increasingly called social computing. "

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it's for all the idiots out there by fury88 · 2006-04-03 04:28 · Score: 0, Troll

They just coin the phrase so the dumbass recruiters can have a buzzword when they recruit you. It's as bad as Java 2 or Java 5, etc being called 1.2 or 1.5. I had a recruiter ask me once if I knew Java 2.0. I was like.. umm there is no such thing. He's like, What is Java 2 then? I am like, some dumb thing Sun started.