Bob Sutor has a good posting on some of the same privacy issues I talked about in my Web 2.0: Issues posting, in more depth and with some different nuances. Worth reading and thinking about.
There are some issues with Web 2.0, mostly in the areas of privacy, security, copyright — all those things you’d rather you didn’t need to worry about. Take privacy for example. On many social networking sites people sign up and then put in all their personal information simply because there’s a field there for it. [...]
The third aspect of Web 2.0, which is often under-appreciated, is the process aspect. This has changed people’s expectations of what software can do, and how it should be delivered. This category includes open source, continual beta and quick release cycles, and some new business models.
Process Cloud
Not all of the things that are important in [...]
The technical component of Web 2.0 includes XML, Ajax, APP, various programming languages, plug-ins and widgets, and the REST architecture. All of these have a role to play in supporting the web sites that incorporate Web 2.0 features, while many predate the Web 2.0 phenomenon. There are far too many interesting technical features for me [...]
The social and collaboration part of Web 2.0 mostly revolves around the concepts of social networking, user-generated content, and the long tail.
Social Cloud
Social networking is the idea that people can meet and talk and organise their social lives using the Web instead of, or in addition to, more traditional methods such as talking face to [...]
Like any hyped technology, Web 2.0 has a lot of buzzwords. They include the tag (as in tag cloud), the folksonomy, the long tail (more about that in a later post), and social software.
Social software is there to support networking and social activities via the internet. Lots of people spend lots of time interacting with [...]
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