On Web 2.0
In reaction to this second list of Web 2.0 companies:
I love how this has turned into a list of websites. There’s no Web 2.0 to it anymore, not that Web 2.0 should even exist as a phrase.
Skype? LiveJournal? Why not add Blogger and DiaryLand while you’re at it? Trillian? Why not Trillian? Anything that makes it different from Skype? No. Add the Google logo while you’re at it, if anyone is “Web 2.0″ it’s definitely Google. Don’t forget a Gmail logo along with Google Reader and Google Page Creator. On that note you should add Geocities too.
While you’re at it add MSN and Yahoo. Microsoft should be included as well. Why not Qualcomm? Didn’t they just release a new version of Eudora? I hear their stock is doing amazingly. You should add Gap, they had some AJAX on their site. Maybe a few auto-manufacturers, definitely Toyota, nothing is more Web 2.0 than hybrid cars.
Ikea, add them, they’ve been innovating in furniture for years now and they’re still innovating in this generation of Web 2.0 so why can’t they be included? After all Skype/LJ were around long before the buzzwords took off so why not Ikea as well?
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Dan said this on February 26th, 2006 at 9:18 am
Sadly, your views on Web 2.0 are clustered. Web 2.0 is the use of new technology that betters the internet, as all of these sites do.
Anthony Timberlake said this on February 26th, 2006 at 4:58 pm
If you think LiveJournal betters the internet… well, I feel very badly for your views of the internet. Any blogging or journaling platform actually worsens the internet for the most part.
But I digress. Apparently Tony misses my point. LiveJournal isn’t using any new “Web 2.0” technology. It’s the same site it was a year ago, a few months ago. If LiveJournal does indeed “better the internet” then why don’t Blogger and Diaryland count? How about MySpace?
Your definition of Web 2.0 is largely flawed. There was a point (two weeks ago?) where Web 2.0 meant sites that use AJAX and XHTML that offer new interesting services. Guess that point has passed unfortunately. Now Web2.0 means whatever people want to cluster into it.
This just in… I Have Been Floated has been Web2.0 for about a year now, sinc e I design soley in XHTML (though it does not validate) and my backend is PHP /MySQL (Wordpress) and there are AJAX elements on my page (Scrobbler).
Brad said this on February 26th, 2006 at 6:15 pm