Web 2.0 is Getting Boring?!?!
Web 2.0 has opened up a whole new possibilities for web developers. There are numerous new features added. A lot of discussion are going on about this new technology. Web 2.0 really took off by the acquisition of YouTube. Since then there are numerous new sites coming up adopting this technology. It opens up a new frontier for sharing files, photos and almost anything that can be digitalize. Sadly to say most of the web pages are not yet adopting this new technology. Web 2.0 is mostly utilize in video sharing and social networking sites. A lot of sites are featuring a remake of their pages but they are still not Web 2.0 sites. It is just the same old thing with different skin. It will be interesting if all sites start to adopt this technology. We will then have a richer web content and something new to look forward to?
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Phil B
Senior Partner - Pamil Visions PR and Consulting
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I think that Web 2.0 has become such a loose set of definitions to tag business that it is very frustrating and difficult for most people to tell WEb 2.0 from Web whatever. I fear that the term will become just another buzz word sometimes even with all out efforts.
it is not so much boring as it is ridiculous sometimes. Things on the web are so transient and quick, it is difficult to attach meaning to much of what I see, and even it you do find something excellent, it is toss up as to whether anyone will see it or care about it if they do.
So, not boring but extremely aggravating and polluted, much like regular media! Open source applications are the most honest out there besides a few exceptional case studies. Wikia, hakia, Powerset and Joost to name a few. Most of the clambering for the rest is just hype and dot-com reinvented in my developing opinion.
I hope my view helped. Please read this post by a colleague of mine and for balance the one I wrote about what Web 2.0 should be.
Always,
Phil
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Krystyna B
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There are lots of companies like the one I work that are always pushing technology to our clients. Its going to take a while for 2.0 to catch up, but with Gen Y out there starting to work and large corporations realizing that advertising online and not on tv is much for effective for there business's we will see a huge change in the next 2 years. Well esp since my dad who hunts and pecks on the keyboard even loves to use flicker, I know things are catching on quickly!
Łukasz M
Specialist at Bank Zachodni WBK S.A., LION <lukasz.mozalewski@aliencamel.com>
No, it is not boring. There are many views. You can find some explanations in given web resource. It's true, many sites claim that they are web 2.0 oriented, but they aren't. The others, are web 2.0 oriented. Examples? See the second given resource.
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Most of the people who use the term web 2.0 don't even know why it's called that or why it had to be coined in the first place - they just picked up some info on web 2.0 and now they are the expert! It's not boring but it is certainly interesting to see what people do to their site in the name of web 2.0 and then don't do anything to change the participation, collaboration or sharing of information or views etc.
The new evolution of the web is def money based - I guess it's easier to justify squirting 10 million into a start-up if you can call it web 2.0 - the idea still probably sucks but, hey, we gotta get on the W2.0 band wagon somehow.
AJAX anyone?
It's getting 'boring' in a way that many people using web 2.0 sites for some time now consider web 2.0 'quality' as something normal and not unusual anymore.
As usual, after the 'wow' period is over users will start to look at the actual content and when it comes down to it, web 2.0 for me it's just a way of delivering content in a new 'fancy' way using technologies like AJAX...
Web2.0 is not boring its just maturing...
In its essence its not even a technology, its an evolution of how we use the internet to communicate and to engage with each other (business and social), I have heard it refered to as the read/write web, we are all contributing and the sum of our knowledge aggregated together has far greater reach, impact and value than the read-only web sites of Web1.0.
A great explanation (posted to YouTube which is not the father of web2.0) is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE&eurl=
Watch this then you will see and understand Web2.0 and then you can brace yourself for Web3.0 its rearing its shiny head already!
As a Web 2.0 person myself, I would have to say (with no bias whatsoever) that Web 2.0 is not just one site (content or video) but rather a wide range of services and applications both consumer and business, not just YouTube, Flickr and other consumer apps.
Converting common business applications into web based applications is a process that has barely started. Products like Freshbooks, Basecamp etc are the start of a wave of applications without location based limits and are the way of the future.
Far from getting boring, Web 2.0 has barely begun.
Rakesh O
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Is it? I don't think so!
Wiki is certainly is not boring, nor does Myspace/flickr/youtube sound boring. The jouney has just began.
Even though Web 3.0 is already in talk, we have yet to tap the full potential of Web 2.0.
The debate spreading across the so-called Web 2.0 is getting a debate about the meaning of information AND technology.
imho Technology can never be boring itself, but information surely can be. Like in 1999-2000 people on the web are starting
to concentrate effort (and money) around technology, forgetting that quality content is the killer application (I'd say content is the real thing) on the web.
Ciao,
Andrea
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I don't like web 2.0 very much. It's a marketing gimmick for low-quality (aka beta), amateur (aka user-generated) inaccurate (aka wikipedia) content.
Its predecessors include community cable, speaker's corner and ham radio. Maybe the occasional call in show like Eurovision or Jerry Springer.
Just because you can make money on trash, doesn't mean it has value.
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As the invertor of WEB 5.2.6.7.2.8.6.4 I can say WEB 2.0 is passe.
We can each invent any number of arbitrary marketing phrasiological and transitionally related paradigmism shifts.
What has become boring is listening to otherwise incompetent people try to sell thier services by touting some catch phrase that has no substance behind it. Lest I be accussed of being an old fogey, let's hear what the person in the single most relavant position of authority has to say about it.
"Tim Berners-Lee, the individual credited with inventing the web and giving so many of us jobs, has become the most prominent individual so-far to point out that the Web 2.0 emperor is naked. Berners-Lee has dismissed Web 2.0 as useless jargon nobody can explain and a set of technology that tries to achieve exactly the same thing as "Web 1.0."..."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/30/web_20_berners_lee/
Just Google "Berners-Lee web 2.0".
If Web 2.0 represents anything, it represent people that can't write a line of code to save their lives and rely instead on point/click, drag/drop utilities that create bloatware and W3C noncompliant sites and typically overcharge their unsuspecting clients along the way.
The Web offers an incredible array of tools and processes that reject any arbitrary dividing lines. We all benefit from a realistic marketing approach to web site development more than from artificial delineations.
And its less boring that way also.
Ordinary people are more involved into the digital world then ever before: sharing, discussing, creating virtual empires. The web is different. It is a Machine. It is a tool.
Here’s a video entitled The Machine is Us/ing Us
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Mike B
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I think there needs to be a paradigm shift in how businesses regard web applications, and how they can be utilized to better meet their customers needs. Until corporate / business does not know how to take advantage of this while at the same time being convinced that it will work, they will stick to tried methods already in place. If there's one thing that's for sure: taxes, death, and corporations slow to change.
There are many small businesses taking advantage of these new technologies, however, these are having little impact on the global customer experience of the internet, as major corporations dominate the web milieu. They are usually 2 to 5 years behind in adopting new technologies, so I expect more of 'Web 2.0'-driven sites to start emerging by end of this year, and getting full-blown by 2009. It just takes a bit to get the ball rolling.
Just look how long it took corporate America to adopt the web in the first place: web sites were readily available in 1995 and 1996, yet the .com boom only took off in 1998: corporate lag. ;-)
