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What is Web2.0, (from a web user's point of view)
Chino had asked me describe , in layman’s terms,
what I thought Web 2.0 might be. After doing some reading and some
research – here is what I think.
Web 2.0 really isn’t anything but an idea. Some IT bigwigs got together
one weekend and had a conference to discuss where the WWW was going.
Probably more like how were they going to make money on the web going
forward. For lack of a better term, they called their little conference
Web 2.0.
From there the geeks, the press, and the world in general got ahold of
that term – Web 2.0 – and decided what they thought it was or perhaps
should be. From what I understand, the term has come to mean a version
of the web where all of the content and information contained is provided
by the folks who use the site. The information is not edited and it’s
not provided by commercial interests that want to sell you on their
theories and products. Web 2.0, they say, will be a place where
everyone can share their ideas, their music, their art and their lives
without interference from the commercial world. It would be an internet
of the people, by the people, and for the people.
I don’t think the idea of Web2.0 will ever supplant the WWW as it is.
After all, there needs to be some mechanism in place to pay for it all.
TV and movies may portray the programmer as a Lone Gunmen type of pasty
geek that sits in a dark room surrounded by computers and glowing
monitors – surviving on pizza crusts and Mountain Dew. It reality,
he/she is someone just like your or I – with a home mortgage, car
payment, utilities and kids to feed. They need income to survive – not
to mention to pay for those computers, the bandwidth to run them and the
servers, and electricity to keep all of it working. And – the pizza man
still does not deliver for free.
Julie
julie can be contacted at julie@randomroadtrip.com
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