On "Web 2.0"
Concerns about Web 2.0 ...
"There’s a lot of talk about the so-called Web 2.0 at the moment, and I’m in two minds about what I think.
On the one hand, as a geek who used to be involved in publishing, “new” almost de facto equates to “exciting”. It could genuinely be the Web is metamorphosing from rather dull dumb-terminals sending and receiving screenfulls of data - just like the IBM MVS terminals I used to use in 1988 - to a rich, asynchronous, application-like environment.
On the other hand, I have two worries. The first is my natural scepticism (some might say “cynicism”) about the hype. It seems to me like a new venture capital orgy is being prepared. The bubble is being inflated by pompous and largely empty buzzworks like “folksonomy”, “social networking”, “tag clouds” and others brilliantly satirised on the Go Flock Yourself blog. And where are the business models?" continued ... (Via Bruce Lawson)
"There’s a lot of talk about the so-called Web 2.0 at the moment, and I’m in two minds about what I think.
On the one hand, as a geek who used to be involved in publishing, “new” almost de facto equates to “exciting”. It could genuinely be the Web is metamorphosing from rather dull dumb-terminals sending and receiving screenfulls of data - just like the IBM MVS terminals I used to use in 1988 - to a rich, asynchronous, application-like environment.
On the other hand, I have two worries. The first is my natural scepticism (some might say “cynicism”) about the hype. It seems to me like a new venture capital orgy is being prepared. The bubble is being inflated by pompous and largely empty buzzworks like “folksonomy”, “social networking”, “tag clouds” and others brilliantly satirised on the Go Flock Yourself blog. And where are the business models?" continued ... (Via Bruce Lawson)
Empty Buzz Words.
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