This is a question that confuses many. It always appears to be a hidden meaning. Is Web 2.0 just hype? Is is important? Will it change things?
“Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform. Chief among those rules is this: Build applications that harness network effects to get better the more people use them. (This is what I’ve elsewhere called ‘harnessing collective intelligence.’)”
Is it best explained in these dry terms?
Perhaps. The very fact that I am writing this blog is part of it, but it goes much deeper and basically is the first step to the web breaking out of the boundaries of its design. Thus, by this dissemination will the web become even more relevant and soon the primary channel through which life is experienced outside our mundane connection with reality. Web 2.0 is an attempt to make your online life and your real life come closer, become richer in texture and smoother in operation, to give a global voice to people who will never meet in the flesh. It will replace our other, biased and controlled mediums because it is liberated. The web is free, vast and almost infinite.
Just words, perhaps. But they are my words. Others say it with video.
Here a professor in Cultural Anthropology explains what it means to him,
So the answer is this, Web 2.0 appears to have a hidden meaning precisely because it is something we will build ourselves.
Basho
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