Web 2.0 sows grassroots collaboration (ZDNet) [LWN.net]

ZDNet looks at the collaborative aspects of Web 2.0. ""The key part of Web 2.0 is that there is something about these new tools that enable new practices of collaboration," said John Seely Brown, a consultant and former chief scientist of Xerox, who spoke at the Collaborative Technology Conference in Boston last week. "Web 2.0 is a profoundly participatory medium." Though it lacks a precise definition, Web 2.0 generally refers to Web services that let people collaborate and share information online. In contrast to the first generation of Web offerings, Web 2.0 applications are more interactive, giving people an experience more akin to a native desktop application as opposed to a static Web page."

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Web 2.0 sews grassroots collaboration (ZDNet)

Posted Jun 27, 2006 15:28 UTC (Tue) by vondo (guest, #256) [Link]

Are you sure the title shouldn't be "sows"

Web 2.0 sows grassroots collaboration (ZDNet)

Posted Jun 29, 2006 11:33 UTC (Thu) by jfj (guest, #37917) [Link]

But the concept of "dynamic content" existed from Web 0.1 in the form of CGI and later PHP. So Web 2.0 surely must be something else! Who knows? It's better to just invest in Web 2.0 anyway because it leverages collaborative advantageous empowerment, or something :)