Mobile 2.0

When talking about current developments of the web, mobile devices seem to (finally) become increasingly important.
The web is evolving from being mainly bound to PCs and their browsers to more device independence.

Interesting examples for that are (imho):

A Bit of 2005 Reflexion

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.

Web 2.0 Intro + Folksonomies

Joshua Porter has written an “Introduction to Web 2.0″ pretty recently—seems to be quite a comprehensive overview of this topic containing links to major resources, basic examples and so on.

Apart from that, he also wrote posted some bits about folksonomies today—quote:

Ajax & Ruby on Rails

When talking about Web 2.0, Ajax has to be mentioned—plus moreover, of course, Ruby on Rails (RoR). This “revolutionary” web-app development framework also provides some bleeding edge Ajax functionalities, mainly through script.aculo.us‘ JavaScript libraries.

Web 2.0 Business Models

So there are really a lot of new Web 2.0 startups flourishing these days.
Evan Williams (currently CEO of Odeo, Inc., previously co-founder and CEO of Pyra Labs, makers of Blogger which is by now part of Google), at the end of this Nov., made imho quite an interesting post about rules for web startups.

I somehow especially like his rule no. 5:

What put the 2 in Web 2.0?

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.

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?