A Bit of 2005 Reflexion

December 23, 2005

So 2005 was the year when the Web 2.0 hype climaxed.

Following, there has been quite some cynism & “hate” coming in especially recently, too. Also all that made for example Richard MacManus, author of Read/WriteWeb, decide to not get involved in the discussion about the term Web 2.0 itself anymore. Read the rest of this entry »


What put the 2 in Web 2.0?

December 6, 2005

Well, for starting out this thing I thought it could make sense to take a look at Adaptive Path’s Web 2.0 Map, recently published by Brandon Schauer in his essay referring to this.

Adaptive Path's Web 2.0 Map PDF

Although, of course, that document also contains mostly all of those (in)famous buzzwords about Web 2.0, it could be helpful trying to extract the most basic assumptions which are proposed via the map.
So, what does it generally say? Read the rest of this entry »