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Web 2.0 As A New Wave of Innovation?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the learning-2.0 dept.

Vitaly Friedman writes "In his article in the recent Educause magazine, Bryan Alexander, Director for Research at the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE), presents a comprehensive analysis of the rising web 2.0 companies and describes the emerging of web 2.0. From the article: ' ... larger players have entered the field, most notably Yahoo, which has been buying up many projects, including Flickr and del.icio.us. Microsoft is considering a massive extension of RSS. And Google has been producing its own projects, such as the Lens RSS reader and Google Maps. Meanwhile, academic implementations are bubbling up, like the social bookmarking and search projects noted earlier. This Web 2.0 movement (or movements) may not supplant Web 1.0, but it has clearly transformed a significant swath of our networked information ecology.'"

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  1. Re:networked information ecology by Psychotext · · Score: 3, Informative

    It was a BT advert, and it was, as you described; terrible. Full of absolutely meaningless buzzwords and general innacuracies.

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  2. Re:Trademark violation by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 2, Informative

    O'Reilly and CMP are having a row for the Web 2.0 trademark to be used in orgainizing events and conferences. I think Web 2.0 will probably fall into the public domain.

  3. Re:Nooooo! by LordLucless · · Score: 3, Informative

    Past tense of "rise" is "rose". I usually don't bother correcting grammar on Slashdot, but you used it so many times I figured it was worth it.

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  4. Re:So... by Dirtside · · Score: 2, Informative
    "morph" on the other hand, is going to fucking stick around for ever. it's just passable enough, and just generic enough to enter into common usage, and it just rots away at the beautiful and giant beast that is english.
    "Morph" is from the Greek meaning "form, shape" and is used in a metric crapload of words that you probably don't object to -- ectomorph, morphology, polymorphic, metamorphosis. "Morph" is merely a short form of "metamorphose," has different connotations, and doesn't "rot away" at English in any way.
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  5. Re:Web 2.0 is about experience not implementation by ben+there... · · Score: 2, Informative

    Some of the other features of the newer web software you might have already noticed are decentralization, remixability, co-creation, and their side-effect of emergent systems. Web services, niche software and the network effect all make these things much more feasible than they have been in the past since there are well defined frameworks for distributing services that are easy to work with and adding more niche services increases the value of all web software by a large amount.

    Did you use that random business marketspeak generator to create your post? (Someone help me out with a link)

    Seriously though, Web 2.0 is just about:

    • Lots more people comfortable using the web
    • Tools that let them just type stuff and post pictures (even video!) without knowing crap about HTML
    • Tools that interact with other tools (RSS feeds and the like)
    • Specialized portals acting as services

    Styles involving gradients, tiny, unreadable, gray fonts and the like are an unfortunate side effect

    (PS: the above list is in a UL, but apparently Slashdot's UL's suck now)