Best and worst of Web 2.0

Posted by Stephen Warley on September 20, 2006

A few days ago Safran introduced LR to GO2WEB20.net, a Web 2.0 directory. That may be overwhelming for some, so Michael Calore at Wired just compiled a list of the best and worst Web 2.0 concepts. Canâ€™t wait to try out writely, a web-based word processor. Iâ€™m all about moving all of my content onto the web and freeing myself from Microsoft! My personal favs are Googleâ€™s Calendar and del.icio.us (although readers of Caloreâ€™s blog gave del.icio.us a thumbs down.) What are your favs?

Dave

The collaborating / sharing idea is cool, especially for group work in college.

Although, let’s be real. MS will rip this off for the next installment of Word.
Safran

Google Calendar is an integral part of my life now. It exports to Outlook and Mac Mail, and sends me text reminders on my phone. It’s my fave.
flotsam

are we ever going to deep six “web 2.0?” it’s become a meaningless buzz phrase for anything new that anybody is doing and is mostly being used by those who missed web 1.0 and now want to sound on top of things.

come on safran, lead this charge.
Stephen Warley

flotsam I agree with you completely, but more often then not, I find myself defaulting to the term “web 2.0″ and many other meaningless buzz words, so people can understand what I am talking about! I also wish people would stop using MBA terms!
flotsam

so it”s default of safran then…
http://amysrobot.com adm

My favorite Web 2.0 site is Ning.com, which lets you easily create web-based applications, or instantly copy the ones other people have made. Ning really understands the social aspects of the web, as well as the revolutionary aspects of application cloning and streamlined development.

Although it is overused, I think the phrase “Web 2.0″ still serves to make a useful distinction between what came before and what some of these newer sites are delivering. The essential features of Web 2.0 seem to be: a social network/framework, an API, and AJAX components in the interface that make the site feel more like an application and less like a website.
http://www.lostremote.com Steve Safran

Oh, the term is very silly and a little self-congratulatory. (“We’re not like the first screwups – we’re 2.0!”) But adm and Warley are right – it’s a term of art now and there is at least a vague understanding of what it means.
flotsam

“Term of art?” Heavens how we wrap what we want to defend in literary cloth.
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