In a recent post we pointed to a meme map posted by Tim O’Reilly that attempts to visually depict the emerging reality often referred to as Web 2.0. The meme map has helped spur several other attempts to define the term.
Dave Winer says “Web 2.0 is really simple, it’s RSS 2.0.” Richard MacManus, who’s writing a book on Web 2.0, disagrees:
Web 2.0 is much more than RSS. It’s about people using the Web as a platform to build on. RSS is one of the tools we use to do that, but there are others - APIs, AJAX, REST, XHTML/CSS, etc…Actually when it comes down to it, Web 2.0 is really about normal everyday people using the Web and creating things on it - forget the acronyms.
Richard also likes a definition offered by Susan Mernit:
Dave Winer says: Web 2.0 is really simple, it’s RSS 2.0, but I would venture to disagree. While RSS is an amazing tool, to me the heart of Web 2.0 is the user. The enduring lesson of all of the social media and emerging technologies is that we’ve created an a la carte, do it yourself platform where users can engage with sophisticated forms of search, feeds, metadata and APIs, social networks and identity, and commerce and fill these vessels with their own information—And that’s the heart of the revolution, IMHO.
Mitch Shapiro at 3:05 PM|Comments(0)
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