05.17.06
Web 2.0 Searching for Substance
Web 2.0 is like art. You know it when you see it. Web 2.0 is also the empreror’s new clothes - much ado about nothing. When a technology or a concept starts having conferences while it is still defining itself it starts to sound more like a conference in search of a reason.
Some people are saying that web 2.0 will be the “social web”, characterized by things like myplace. Bah. People are just trying to categorize innovations that are happening and group them with some kind of handle. in another year and a half we will laugh at the concept of web 2.0.
If Tim Berners-Lee had not tried to go through channels and persue open standards for the symantic web concept and had just pointed to something and said “that’s it!” the symantic web might have received as much traction and hype as web 2.0.
Please let web 2.0 go silently away like push technology did.