Web 2.0: The new buzzword in Internet technology

20 Sep in rss, semantic web, social networks & collaboration, web design & usability

If you haven't heard of it, you will: Web 2.0. It's exploding into conversations online at the moment. Is it a useful way of describing the way that the web is turning to a distributed environment where users push/pull/share content in communicative acts rather than just visiting static virtual spaces? Or is it just business hype?

To me, Web 2.0 is Tim Berners Lee's Semantic Web meets social software.

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Faster, MUCH FASTER

I attended a talk by Lee Rainie of the Pew Internet and American Life Project. I think it was from him that I heard that Web 2.0 is going to be a lot faster -- much more data per second.

I've been meaning to learn more about Semantic Web, I mean really understand it: RDF, ontologies, etc.

CultureCat

That sounds more like

Internet 2.0 which is already in use by many educational institutions. It's just not part of the public Internet that the rest of us have access to. Maybe one day :)

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