After digesting O’Reilly’s meme-map, Dion Hinchcliffe comes up with his own visualization of Web 2.0, while Joshua Porter contributes some themes, links and questions to the discussion.
Cristian Vidmar sees “RSS as the first mainstream example of movable data: a simple and safe way to make human-understandable data available to any computer and application, anywhere. Movable data, with both its technical and social impacts, is more than anything else the roots of the Web 2.0 revolution.”
What’s most fascinating is that in the Web 2.0 arena movable data plays a key role both on the technical side (XML-RPC, SOAs) where it changes the development model and on the human side (RSS, hopefully soon many microcontent formats) where it makes new forms of data consuming available to people, changing the way they interact and inform.
RSS and XML-RPC were the first real world incarnation of these concepts, honor is due. Even if I wouldn’t say that Web 2.0 is RSS 2.0, RSS 2.0 is probably the first and most widely adopted kind of movable data. And movable data is the real revolution.
Thanks to techmemeorandum.com for tracking and organizing the streams of discussion.
Mitch Shapiro at 4:28 PM|Comments(0)
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