{"id":195,"date":"2007-11-06T08:44:02","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T16:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2007\/11\/06\/web-20-introduction\/"},"modified":"2007-11-13T11:00:34","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T19:00:34","slug":"web-20-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2007\/11\/web-20-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Web 2.0: Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the CSW<\/span> XML<\/span> Sum\u00admer School this year I gave a talk on Web 2.0, in the Trends and Tran\u00adsi\u00adents track. I\u2019ve been pon\u00adder\u00ading wheth\u00ader to write it up as a series of post\u00adings or not; there\u2019s so much hype and inform\u00ada\u00adtion around Web 2.0 that many people are bored silly with it now. I decided it\u2019s prob\u00adably worth\u00adwhile since I found some ways of organ\u00adiz\u00ading the fea\u00adtures com\u00admonly asso\u00adci\u00adated with Web 2.0 that I haven\u2019t seen elsewhere.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve cre\u00adated a series of posts, of which this is the first. The links will become act\u00adive as I pub\u00adlish the posts.<\/p>\n

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  1. Buzzwords<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Social and Collaboration<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Tech\u00adnic\u00adal<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Pro\u00adcess<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Issues<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The big thing about Web 2.0 is the concept that lots of people want to have a say, and that many of them have some\u00adthing valu\u00adable to say. The idea is that sys\u00adtems that give people a voice, and that enable them to take part in dis\u00adcus\u00adsions, have value. It\u2019s no longer the case that only spe\u00adcial\u00adists or celebrit\u00adies can have their opin\u00adions pub\u00adlished, ordin\u00adary people can too. This idea that users can cre\u00adate the con\u00adtent that oth\u00ader users read or view has its detract\u00adors of course, but they tend to be out\u00adnumbered by the pro\u00adponents (or is it just that the pro\u00adponents are louder?).<\/p>\n

    The mar\u00adket\u00ading hype tends to over\u00adshad\u00adow everything of course, and now we\u2019re get\u00adting into the silly sea\u00adson where every new idea is labelled with its own Web x.x vari\u00adant. Pretty soon we\u2019ll be repla\u00adcing the num\u00adber and append\u00ading the year, just like happened with oper\u00adat\u00ading sys\u00adtems, then with names taken from obscure or made-up lan\u00adguages. Web 2.0 as a fea\u00adture set is, how\u00adever, worthy of atten\u00adtion, even if the mar\u00adket\u00ading hype gets a bit much.<\/p>\n

    I\u2019m not going to dis\u00adcuss new devel\u00adop\u00adments such as Google\u2019s OpenSo\u00adcial API<\/span> in this series; it\u2019s too new for me to be able to say any\u00adthing use\u00adful on wheth\u00ader it will change the big pic\u00adture, or just the details.<\/p>\n

    If you\u2019re look\u00ading for a pub\u00adlic\u00ada\u00adtion with a lot<\/b> of detail, try O\u2019Reilly\u2019s Web 2.0 Radar Report<\/a>. It\u2019s expens\u00adive, but it has a lot of mater\u00adi\u00adal and ref\u00ader\u00adences in it, as well as recom\u00admend\u00ada\u00adtions for best prac\u00adtices. Worth read\u00ading if you have to make bet-the-com\u00adpany busi\u00adness decisions about this stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    At the CSW<\/span> XML<\/span> Sum\u00admer School this year I gave a talk on Web 2.0, in the Trends and Tran\u00adsi\u00adents track. I\u2019ve been pon\u00adder\u00ading wheth\u00ader to write it up as a series of post\u00adings or not; there\u2019s so much hype and inform\u00ada\u00adtion around Web 2.0 that many people are bored silly with it now. I \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cWeb 2.0: Introduction\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentations","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}