What is Web 2.0?

Sholom Sandalow, Saturday, June 3, 2006 @ 9:04 am

We are  hearing more and more about this thing called Web 2.0 and how it's going to make the world whole.  Or at least that it's going to improve the way we interact with the web. 

But how can we define it?  Is it--as Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart said of hard-core pornography--hard to define, but "I know it when I see it", or can we make some concrete statements about what it is and what it is not?

From the entry on Web 2.0 in Wikipedia..."To some extent Web 2.0 is a buzzword, incorporating whatever is newly popular on the Web (such as tags and podcasts), and its meaning is still in flux."

A few questions to ponder:
Is Web 2.0 an idea, or is it a collection of objects?
Is it a description of a set of technologies, or a new way of using the computer?
Is its existence primarily important for its functionality or its marketing presence?
Can we define what technologies Web 2.0  includes?

A little more on this subject later on...

user experience design

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