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December 15, 2005
Web two point oohhh...
So, some of my more technically savvy readers may have heard the phrase "web2.0" of late. What this refers to is a collection of rather useful web-based applications that were developed after the .com bust of 2000. What most of these applications have in common is that they allow the user (you and me!) to add context to the web...
The two niftiest tools have been RSS feeds and Tags. Both tools are ways for users to say “I want to use this content in that way"...
As an example: You can subscribe to the RSS feed (using a reader) for my site by using this link. Rather than having to look at my site every day or so, you can get notification when I’ve updated. Simple...
In a certain sense, much of the development of Web2.0 is an outgrowth of that other big web2.0 medium: blogs. In a very real sense blogs are a method of picking and choosing news and commentary; contextualizing and deepening what had previously been less clear...
I’ll be talking more about this in coming days, but I thought I’d give you guys a reference...
Posted by Andrew at December 15, 2005 05:27 PM
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You mean I won't have to look when you have nothing to say? Hooray!
Posted by: somebody Special at December 15, 2005 08:54 PM
Take a look at what Paul Graham had to say:
http://www.paulgraham.com/web20.html
Basaically "Web 2.0 = Java now works."
Posted by: Saar Drimer at December 20, 2005 04:41 AM