99 Red Balloons
05/03/2006
What is web 2.0?
A typical day at the office features a few Itchy and Scratchy shows. We cover a wide variety of topics, including what to do with the Boss’s cube while he’s away next week, what kind of person should we hire, what the heck did Google do this time, what movies we caught on the plane, how our vacations went, and which site should the company buy this time.
Last week, we had the Web 2.0 special.
So what is web 2.0? We started talking about it, and how all these non-industry folks talk about it, but didn’t really know what it was either. Then suddenly something snapped in my head.
Did I know what web 2.0 is?
It was pretty telling, when I answered that it was all the fun Flickr thingamajigs vs something old like Yahoo! Photos.
Yes, lame I know.
The Boss brought up a good point, that people completely miss the point of web 2.0, mostly because they get all caught up in the Ajax part of it. But then he completely lost me when he went on some rhetoric about how web 2.0 would make the web a meritocracy. Or something. Or another.
So now what do I think web 2.0 is?
Everything that every internet company wanted to do in 1998 but was unable to. Hahaha.
At the end of the day, it makes little difference what I think it is or not, or what I think it should be or not. All I want for the internet to do for me is to be more personalisable, easier to use, faster to use, and let me know what people with similar interests and friends are up to. And if it gets there it’s good, and if it doesn’t it should be catching up – it certainly looks that way.
Ok, off to watching totally flaky tv – nothing’s flakier than Hot or Not – and Mr C’s special prata.
