Since I last posted I have:
- met one new grandparent
- lost two other grandparents
- changed jobs
…so the blog hasn’t been the highest priority. But since then all this 2.0 stuff really has leapt forward. There’s also been a lot of “2.0 is so much hype” (for example, see http://www.schillmania.com/content/opinion/2005/10/dont-believe-the-web-20-hype/), but it occurs to me that although the label is lame, the user-generated content thing really is a shift. And that shift, I think, is down to the fact that for the first time users have tools that work. I have a number of clients who spent a vast sum on a ropey CMS that now isn’t used or is broken, implemented relatively recently. Now there is so much excellent software that is esy to implement and use, the does so much more than produce webpages from dull templates. I know it’s a more complex story, but I can’t help thinking that 2.0 isn’t so much building on what went before on the web, so much as destroying it and getting it right this time.
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May 11th, 2006 at 1:27 am
If last year was the year Google became evil, perhaps this year will be the year O’Reilly becomes evil? It’s important to make a distinction between the development of the semantic web (a new way of organising content, which isn’t reliant on one particular set of technologies, being standards-based and transparent at the user-end) and new methods/platforms for application programming, which come and go. Shouldn’t AJAX be AEAX anyhow?