http://www.ideasonideas.com/2006/06/web-2-is-bull/ Eric Karjaluoto discusses design, brands and experience Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:57:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.ideasonideas.com/2006/06/web-2-is-bull/#comment-7219 links for 2006-06-10 - Nerdcore Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:28:30 +0000 http://www.ideasonideas.com/2006/06/web-2-is-bull/#comment-7219 [...] ideasonideas — Blog Archive — Web 2.0 is Bull, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Web 2.0 (tags: web2.0) [...] [...] ideasonideas — Blog Archive — Web 2.0 is Bull, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Web 2.0 (tags: web2.0) [...]

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]]> http://www.ideasonideas.com/2006/06/web-2-is-bull/#comment-7018 dailywebthing linkport Wed, 07 Jun 2006 15:08:24 +0000 http://www.ideasonideas.com/2006/06/web-2-is-bull/#comment-7018 <strong>'that shallow buzzword'...</strong> Web 2.0 is Bull, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Web 2.0 [Ample Sanity]... 'that shallow buzzword'...

Web 2.0 is Bull, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Web 2.0 [Ample Sanity]...

]]> http://www.ideasonideas.com/2006/06/web-2-is-bull/#comment-7017 Al Tue, 06 Jun 2006 23:10:08 +0000 http://www.ideasonideas.com/2006/06/web-2-is-bull/#comment-7017 Wow! The further we get into its rollout, the further we seem to get away from the core idea of "Web 2.0" (for lack of a better term. It's kinda cute in a way) What first excited me about the concept - and I can't claim to have been having profound web insights since before Windows 95 or anything - is that it holds the promise of people being creative with information in new ways. Google Map mashups are the perfect example. Take the Google map visual approach and combine it with Chicago crime statistics and you have a visual record that become WAY more powerful. (Seeing certain neighborhoods with a density of violent crimes vs. others with relatively few adds a new dimension of emotional impact to the data.) So at bottom, Web 2.0 is an approach to the web that breaks free from the single agenda websites of Web 1.0. Database driven sites have opened up the possibility for a third party to look at two separate web applications or information sources and combine them in ways that the whole becomes more than the sum of the parts. Ways that the original source site builders never imagined. Instead of using HTML and Java Scripts as the materials to build a single site, you are using sites themselves as your pallet. The approach has implications for business uses that are not new - progressive businesses have been using the idea of sharing databases with their customers and suppliers since Web 1.0 was a teenager - but the popularization of the concept may just inspire more firms to look at ways to take a leap forward by connecting information that has not been traditionally connected. The hype, B.S., false promises, and misunderstandings surrounding Web 2.0 are indeed annoying, but the shift from thinking of ourselves as being in an "information economy" vs. being in a "CONNECTING information economy" is the exciting part. It may prove to be more disrupting than the shift from a manufacturing economy to an information economy ever was. Wow! The further we get into its rollout, the further we seem to get away from the core idea of "Web 2.0" (for lack of a better term. It's kinda cute in a way)

What first excited me about the concept - and I can't claim to have been having profound web insights since before Windows 95 or anything - is that it holds the promise of people being creative with information in new ways. Google Map mashups are the perfect example. Take the Google map visual approach and combine it with Chicago crime statistics and you have a visual record that become WAY more powerful. (Seeing certain neighborhoods with a density of violent crimes vs. others with relatively few adds a new dimension of emotional impact to the data.)

So at bottom, Web 2.0 is an approach to the web that breaks free from the single agenda websites of Web 1.0. Database driven sites have opened up the possibility for a third party to look at two separate web applications or information sources and combine them in ways that the whole becomes more than the sum of the parts. Ways that the original source site builders never imagined. Instead of using HTML and Java Scripts as the materials to build a single site, you are using sites themselves as your pallet.

The approach has implications for business uses that are not new - progressive businesses have been using the idea of sharing databases with their customers and suppliers since Web 1.0 was a teenager - but the popularization of the concept may just inspire more firms to look at ways to take a leap forward by connecting information that has not been traditionally connected.

The hype, B.S., false promises, and misunderstandings surrounding Web 2.0 are indeed annoying, but the shift from thinking of ourselves as being in an "information economy" vs. being in a "CONNECTING information economy" is the exciting part. It may prove to be more disrupting than the shift from a manufacturing economy to an information economy ever was.

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