What about Web 2.0?

Web 2.0 is a buzz word, there are many opinions about what is required for a site to be called Web 2.0. A good place to learn more is over at Wikipedia.

Adaptive Path has a great article called Experience Attributes: Crucial DNA of Web 2.0. There is a PDF called What put the 2 in Web 2.0 about attributes and with examples.

ChangeThis has a manifesto called Web 2.0: Strategies and Lessons for Business Leaders.

There is a large catalog of sites over at EVERYTHING 2.0.

Not everyone is impressed by Web 2.0 I read this blogpost with comments by Tim Berners-Lee on Web 2.0: “nobody even knows what it means”.

When asked if it’s fair to say that the difference between the two might be fairly described as “Web 1.0 is about connecting computers, while Web 2.0 is about connecting people,” Berners-Lee replied, “Totally not. Web 1.0 was all about connecting people. It was an interactive space, and I think Web 2.0 is of course a piece of jargon, nobody even knows what it means. If Web 2.0 for you is blogs and wikis, then that is people to people. But that was what the Web was supposed to be all along. And in fact, you know, this ‘Web 2.0,’ it means using the standards which have been produced by all these people working on Web 1.0.”