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Web 2.0, shall we learn from it?
by Ismail Fahmi | December 27, 2006 |
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, in a podcast interview for IBM almost one year ago (9/1/06), indicated that the term “Web 2.0″ is a piece of jargon that we might not need it. Further, he said, “nobody even knows what it means.” He might be right. The meaning of this term, since the first introduction by Tim O’Reilly in 2004, is keep evolving until the end of 2005 (and now?).
What I can understand from the Web-2.0-term debates is that there are some visionary people trying to give a name to the evolving new technologies which bring new excitements, benefits, and experiences to users, while on the other hand some visionary people see the evolution of user experiences in the internet is just consequences of the maturity of underlying technologies they developed. Indeed, Web 2.0 applications use the same technology (TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP, IMAP, LDAP) developed since the beginning of the internet. The incredible AJAX which enriches the Web also uses HTTP.
If I look at again to the history of the Web 2.0 term invention, I would be easily suspicious to the intention of their inventors. This term was first arose during a brainstorming session between O’Reilly and MediaLive International, a producer of technology tradeshows and conferences. If I would be there, of course I would think of some thing big, bigger, great publicity, or if needed a buzzword, a hype which will successfully persuade people for attending and participating the shows and converences. But again, this is only my naughty and subjective feeling. Don’t take it into account.
However, for people like me, which has no benefit of being supportive nor critical, being open mind would be better for not “missing the opportunity to learn what the new visionaries out there think, those that do believe they are onto something different, building something different, onto a different era (Stowe).”
I learn one wisdom while reading posts and comments about the Web 2.0:
Organizations that fail to embrace the Web’s natural communication-oriented strengths will fail when put in competition that those that do.
People who stand hand-in-hand promoting the Web 2.0 are now trying their best to learn the evolusion or revolusion of the Net, and formulate strategies and wisdoms. Regardless we are a hype or an anti-hype toward the term, they are exist and keep sharing their though through journals and workgroups.
Questioned about the meaning of the term, one of Web 2.0 supporter, Dion, obliged to review or gather the best or most interesting definition of this term and review its status. And finally, the official definition of Web 2.0 is:
Web 2.0 is the network as platform, spanning all connected devices; Web 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of that platform: delivering software as a continually-updated service that gets better the more people use it, consuming and remixing data from multiple sources, including individual users, while providing their own data and services in a form that allows remixing by others, creating network effects through an “architecture of participation,” and going beyond the page metaphor of Web 1.0 to deliver rich user experiences. (Tim O’Reilly)
Despite of all criticisms, people keep using the term as “an indicator that something different is going on with recent innovations on the web (Baloney)”. They believe that the term “is being adopted by a wide range of people, including marketing weasels and earnest technologists, each of whom have their own reasons for adopting the term.” Answering weak business model criticisms, Dion suggest some tactics to successfully monetize Web 2.0, and supporting new adopters, John Musser, a member of Web2.0 workgroup, collects interesting APIs and Mushups available in the Internet.
Indeed, Web 2.0 has no standard like the Semantic Web. However, we can learn many things from these guys efforts. What do you think?
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