Computer help: What does "web 2.0" mean?
What does "web 2.0" mean?
by AndyPeters1 - 8/13/07 6:54 AMWhat does c|net mean when they talk about "web 2.0"?
Is it just a term for the future of internet?
Is it an actual project or product? If so, who is developing it?
thank you!
complex question
by ozos - 8/13/07 6:57 AM In reply to: What does "web 2.0" mean? by AndyPeters1Web 2.0 is considered to be the current "age" of the internet, the collaborative internet, things like Wikis, RSS feeds, meta news sites like Digg and Slashdot, where any user can comment on more or less anything, edit and create content, etc
Instead of webmasters and site designers being the only ones to create content, and BBS being the only way to voice an opinion.
Thats more or less what they're talking about, in a nutshell (theres a lot of software/development apps and hardware that sits behind all of the above, but thats a much more complex answer).
Another answer...
by jbking2 - 8/13/07 8:19 AM In reply to: What does "web 2.0" mean? by AndyPeters1O'Reilly coined and has a pretty good article explaining what they mean by it as it is in reference to the newer applications on the Internet.
Regards,
JB
Different for everyone
by Jackson Douglas - 8/13/07 8:20 AM In reply to: What does "web 2.0" mean? by AndyPeters1To some people, Web 2.0 means sites using some of the new development tools like AJAX and sites using dynamically generated content such as this forum... To others, it means all the new web based businesses that have popped up since about 2000 or so when the first round of companies crashed and burned. To yet others, it means some combination of these two things. To others still it's some vague amorphous ideal. To yet more others, it has more to do with the sharp rise in blogs and bloggers.
It really has no particular meaning, except to the person who is using it at the time. IIRC, it was more or less started by the Ruby on Rails people, who created a framework for making database driven websites that didn't involve having to insert a lot of SQL commands into your code to interact with the database, and a bunch of other things that really would only be of interest to a web developer. It was then basically hijacked and used to mean just about anything anyone wanted it to.
So the long and short of it is, it's just another in a long line of buzz words the psuedo-intellectual (like pretty much the whole of Cnet's writing staff if you ask me) like to toss around to sound important and smart. The more someone uses the term, the less they are likely to have a clue what they're talking about.
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