Why there's no such thing as Web 2.0(blog.pmarca.com)
blog.pmarca.com
Why there's no such thing as Web 2.0
http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/06/why_theres_no_s.html
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His blog is off to a great start. Lots of great insights in just the first week. I hope he can keep it up.
I'm curious: who are the people that still think "Web 2.0" is an interesting or useful term?
It seems that the debates over what it means, where it's valuable (if at all), and who should care, were had and done last year.
It seems that the debates over what it means, where it's valuable (if at all), and who should care, were had and done last year.
With Web 2.0 people talk alot about: - Using code that you did not write (god bless open source) - ... and never spend a dime on (or contributing to) it - Never worry about actual content/service - ... and never pay a dime for content (let customers do it for you!)
so... basically Web 2.0 is largely about not creating anything, but rather finding ways of capitalizing on what others have done.
Do I sound to pessimistic? :-) Did I forget about AJAX? :-) But AJAX is just one function call and it's been innovated by Microsoft wa-a-a-ay back in Web 1.0 days.