Comments on: A Preview of Things to Come

By: Wyatt

Wyatt — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 05:00:21 +0000

Yeah, there was some guy on NPR talking about people only getting involved in their politics when it comes into their own lawn, or something.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 20:28:14 +0000

I’m working on Dawn’s laptop this week, running Safari, and what do you know? The shoutbox kills Safari. When it was happening to you, I didn’t care. But when it happens to me…well, that shit’s got to change, right?

By: Wyatt

Wyatt — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 19:53:20 +0000

What happened to your shout-box?

By: Kyle

Kyle — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 15:59:46 +0000

Good guess, but no.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 15:53:45 +0000

It means several different things … or that’s how I’ve seen it used. I like best the ideas that Tim O’Reilly discusses in his 2005 posting on “Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software.” Ideas like the web as platform, harnessing collective intelligence/data as paramount (use of the tool/data adds structure and content which then builds on itself), end of the software release cycle (as seen by the end user … rolling releases/constant small changes). Here’s a link to his post. It’s the first hit in Google for web 2.0. … And no, I didn’t hit Google before writing this. I had read this months ago.

By: Wyatt

Wyatt — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 15:28:42 +0000

Another good thing about ‘Web 2.0′ not being clearly definable, is that you can’t be charged with breach of contract when you end up giving them a Geocities website with animated spinning-guitar GIFs, and an autoplay MIDI version of the X-Files theme song.