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Web 2.0 is a nebulous buzzword or a poor design trend at best. Sure, things like xmlhttprequest, javascript, and web standards are starting to take off now, but it's not a fundamental change or a new 'release' of the web.
The best use of the term Web 2.0 is simply to signify a renewed interest in the web. At worst, Web 2.0 is a buzzword wielded by marketeers and businessmen who dictate that their site should be based on some notion of "Web 2.0" (i.e. 'Everyone else is using rounded corners and gradients, so we should as well'). It's dangerous to simplify complex things like the design/programming of a website to a buzzword like "Web 2.0" - it gets the entire web stuck in a design rut and ultimately slows progress. Buzzwords are bad.
Look, people, the Internet is not some product evolving in big, whole-numbered discrete steps. The Web isn't like the release of Microsoft Office 10, followed by version 11.
No... technologies evolve and products improve bit by bit, formerly little-used tools get a new lease on life or are used in more creative ways, and so on. It's not like one day we wake up and *vavoom* there's a new Web online! And yes, I gather that the whole Web 2.0 thing is referring to "revolutionary" components, applications, but still I say, bah humbug. I love Gmail as much as the next guy, I think Meebo is pretty nifty... but sheesh... all this still doesn't, IMHO, warrant the whole "2.0" gushing.
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I'm not surprised that e-business mags are trumpeting "Web 2.0." But I'm embarrassed that my fellow geeks are bloggily embracing it, too.
Please, for the love of 1's and 0's, can we go just one day without blabbing on about how some burgeoning transformation is going to create lasting peace, boost the world dotconomy, and help geeks get laid? I mean, maybe the first two, fine, but the third...? Only in Silicon Valley. Ah, only in Silicon Valley...
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Is it just me, or has daily talk of 'Web 2.0' finished? It really started getting boring to hear about it, and my feel is that Web 2.0 crap died out after iPods, iPhones and Vista became the new cool IT thing.
It was just overhyped, like ever other 'next great thing' in IT. As its real capabilities become apparent it will become just another tool - advantageous for some thing and not suitable for others. But thats OK, there will another gravy train along soon enough.
Some More comments, this time now from me on "Web 2.0".
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I just wanted to say how much I’ve come to dislike this “Web 2.0” faux-meme. It’s not only vacuous marketing hype, it can’t possibly be right. In terms of qualitative changes of everyone’s experience of the Web, the first happened when Google hit its stride and suddenly search was useful for, and used by, everyone every day. The second—syndication and blogging turning the Web from a library into an event stream—is in the middle of happening. So a lot of us are already on 3.0. Anyhow, I think Usenet might have been the real 1.0. But most times, the whole thing still feels like a shaky early beta to me.
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