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Social Computing and Badger's Paws

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the mushroom dept.

An anonymous reader writes "When Yahoo!'s Jeremy Zawodny recently asked What the heck is Web 2.0 anyway? he received a set of responses reminiscent of those garnered by The Register back in 2005, which famously concluded, based on its readers' responses, that Web 2.0 was made up of 12% badger's paws, 6% JavaScript worms, and 26% nothing. Nonetheless, as Social Computing (SoC) widens and deepens its footprint, another Jeremy — Jeremy Geelan — has asked if we are witnessing the death of 'Personal' Computing. SoC, Geelan notes, has already become an academic field of study. But perhaps Social Computing too is just badger's paws?"

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  1. Badgers belong firmly in web 1.0 by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Everyone knows that badgers are strictly a web 1.0 phenomena. (it's been around since the web went from 0.9b4 to 1.0 RC1)

    Oh - anyone who hasn't already seen the animation linked above, make sure you watch right to the end - the punch line is hilarious! ;-)

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    1. Re:Badgers belong firmly in web 1.0 by rs79 · · Score: 2, Funny

      No kidding. It sould like an old press release for C News. "this is what people are doing and how". Big woop; like we didn't notice.

      As far as I can see the only great strive forward in 20 years is kids can now dub sound into other videos and have them and their pictures hosted free someplace while they tyle "lol" or "oh, that sucks" all day.

      Could we call it the vacuous eye-candy revolution instead?

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  2. Obligatory Installing Linux on a Dead Badger Post by Glowing+Fish · · Score: 3, Funny

    http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040405/badge r.shtml

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  3. What's the other 56%? by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dark matter?

    1. Re:What's the other 56%? by phalse+phace · · Score: 3, Funny

      Poniez!!!

  4. They said it wan't complete by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Anyhow, I know where we are.
    Be nice to my poor comp.

  5. Re:26% nothing??!? by grolschie · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am actually a New Zealander, but am writing for an American audience. ;-)

  6. Re:26% nothing??!? by Bastard+of+Subhumani · · Score: 2, Funny

    Quite a few of those kind of fables/fairytales are well-known over here.
    True, but they're all copyrighted by Disney.
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