Social Computing and Badger's Paws

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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Badgers belong firmly in web 1.0

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

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! ;-)

Re:What's the other 56%?

[KDR_11k]

Marketing. Which is actually the total opposite of Dark Matter, you don't want to see it but it's highly visible and it has zero weight behind it.