web 2.0 (rant)

Originally Posted by jon ... but you can't argue that it's only recently that the style has become popular.

I can. Those styles of designs have been floating around 'CSS' galleries for years and years.

Except that there hasn't even been css galleries for years and years, try 3ish years.

04 was when they first started popping up I believe.

The style of design that is often associated with "web2.0" has been around for a long time but Jon is right, that style has over past 2 years or so grown and grown in popularity especially since the bigger sites started using more simplistic designs.

Originally Posted by Village Idiot Care to explain what web 2.0 is then? and web2.0 came around in '05

I thaught that it came around in 2004?
Edit: Sorry didn't see blueire posted same thign before me, didn't realise there was three pages =P

I'm sick and tired of people trying to define what "web 2.0" really is, saying it doesn't exist, or it does exist. It's simply a buzzword, and nothing more.

In my experience, here's what the word seems to be:

When the word "web 2.0" is used in a design sense, the person is usually referring to a simplistic and functional look.

When it's used in programming, it's mainly referring to Ajax or RoR.

When it's used in another sense, it's referring to the power of users controlling the site, as seen in social networking sites, or web apps.

But it's just a word that I wouldn't worry about.

"web 2 designs" look like trash. period.

Web 2.0 is NOT ajax/RSS. Nor is it high-gloss, low-complexity designs. Web 2.0 is a movement in web development entailing high amounts of user interactivity with huge amounts of user-generated data. That is what web 2.0 is; no more. The things that people describe as web 2.0 are the things that came along with the movement.
The name of the movement, web 2.0, is probably causing the trouble itself...people think that they require new frontends to go along with the whole "Next Generation (2.0)" web backends.

Btw, this is when web 2.0 was thought of, and then implemented at a different date:

Originally Posted by Wikipedia Web 2.0, a phrase coined by O'Reilly Media in 2003[1] and popularized by the first Web 2.0 conference in 2004[2] , refers to a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services — such as social-networking sites, wikis and folksonomies — which facilitate collaboration and sharing between users. O'Reilly Media titled a series of conferences around the phrase, and it has since become widely adopted.