Is Web 2.0 growing up?
4 Comments Published September 20th, 2007 09:32 Tags: Businesses, Web, Web 2.0According to The Wallstreet Journal more companies are spending more money in the field of "Web 2.0" (we SO need to come up with another term for that) — mostly social networking or blogging.
Also the investments in Web 2.0 companies has started to move outside the San Francisco Bay Arena which is "known for producing [...]
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Hi Lars
This is just a comment to your remark that "we SO need to come up with another term for that" i.e. "Web 2.0".
Why do we need that. Web 2.0 is an umbrella for "social media" and the underlying technologies plus other web app's etc.
Is "Web 2.0" not a fairly well expression for the umbrella? If we speak more specifically about social media, other web apps, masups etc., when that is needed?
Erik
The reason why I'm not that crazy with the "web 2.0" term is that it doesn't really describe what it is.
If web 2.0 means social, then web 1.0 was.. not social? That doesn't make sense. I can remember chatting and being on forum board and leaving guest book comments, long before this "Web 2.0" was invented.
// Lars
Of course you're right, Lars, "web 1.0" was not that unsocial. I guess that I generated more stuff around 15 years on various forums than nowadays on the wide specter of social media.
But in a way "Web 2.0" still offers good sense – to me – as a notion for a "new" phase or situation, where many of the visions from the time of the birth of the net are realized in a much more massive degree than ever before.
Admitted, it is fluffy and non-descriptive, but I think it is too late to substitute "Web 2.0" with something else.
Erik
Yeah, I guess you're right on that.
My fear is however, that all things social on the web will be labeled "web 2.0".
They way I see "web 2.0" it's a lot about participants delivering content to sites that aren't necessarily their own.
Therefore it might be a good idea to label a lot of it "journalism 2.0" in stead?
// Lars