Did I miss the memo? Does “Web 2.0” actually mean something now? Has it been released?
This article refers to “Web 2.0 applications like social networking sites, blogs, wikis and RSS feeds”. What makes those Web 2.0 applications? What about GMail, is that Web 2.0? Are any/all AJAX-based apps Web 2.0? Ruby on Rails?
I get the impression from that article that anything that gained lots of popularity/notoriety in 2006 (maybe even mid to late 2005) is Web 2.0.
Can anybody tell me exactly how to determine what is “Web 2.0” and what isn’t?
Is anybody working on Web 3.0 yet? Or even Web 2.1?
Web 2.0, in my experience, refers to websites so bloated that my poor (and not so old) laptop chokes while visiting them, especially when in power-saving mode.
A Pentium M at 600 mhz should be able to handle a mere webpage.
Odd, discounting those annoying flash pages, true web 2.0 web pages load much faster than other pages. Of course, what I consider web 2.0 is those sites like facebook.com and mozzilla.com which are light and simplistic.
Of course there are loads of newer sites that have quite a few images and flash intros and the like, but I hardly consider those 2.0.
Web 2.0 has nothing to do with page bloat or loading speed one way or the other. It’s a conceptual thing having to do with user involvement in the site. You can just as easily have slow sites in Web 2.0 as Web 1.0 or Web 99.0.
Uhm, OK, maybe. And how is that related to Web 2.0?
