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06-27-2007, 05:33 PM
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Wikipedia has a good page about Web 2.0, so to save me typing, go read it. 
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06-27-2007, 07:18 PM
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Originally Posted by wiki
# Level 3 applications, the most "Web 2.0" oriented, which could only exist on the Internet, deriving their power from the human connections and network effects that Web 2.0 makes possible, and growing in effectiveness the more people use them. O'Reilly's examples were: eBay, craigslist, Wikipedia, del.icio.us, Skype, dodgeball and Adsense.
# Level 2 applications, which can operate offline but which gain advantages from going online. O'Reilly cited Flickr, which benefits from its shared photo-database and from its community-generated tag database.
# Level 1 applications, also available offline but which gain features online. O'Reilly pointed to Writely (now part of Google Docs & Spreadsheets) and iTunes (because of its music-store portion).
# Level 0 applications, which would work as well offline. O'Reilly gave the examples of MapQuest, Yahoo! Local and Google Maps. Mapping applications using contributions from users to advantage can rank as "level 2".
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This isnt new at all, sites like amazon have existed since the 90's and would qualify as a level 3 (web 2.0) applications. Blogs and message boards have also existed for a long time, by definition they are web 2.0. The wiki article really advances my point. My claim that web 2.0 doesnt exist at all, rather is just a catchphrase is perfectly valid. The way I see it, web 2.0 is just a naming fad like iProduct, it will take the same path in a few years that eProduct did.
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06-27-2007, 09:18 PM
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06-27-2007, 09:24 PM
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Originally Posted by sskhalsa 
i love web 2.0
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What about it?
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06-29-2007, 08:27 AM
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06-29-2007, 12:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Sam Granger
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Good video. Explains it well imo :] Nice find.
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06-29-2007, 09:51 PM
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Ive seen that video, all those technologies where avalable a long time ago. This video could have been made more then 5 years ago.
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06-30-2007, 02:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Village Idiot
Ive seen that video, all those technologies where avalable a long time ago. This video could have been made more then 5 years ago.
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Well, web applications are much richer then the ones we had 5 years back and usability has gone up a lot too.
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06-30-2007, 05:42 PM
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I'm guilty of this.
Although the term "web 2.0" doesn't refer to the design style of a website (generally speaking when the term is used it refers to the backend coding of a site or what the site does) you can't deny that most web 2.0 websites have a certain design style. When designers use this term in sales threads they have normally tried to achieve this new design style.
More on web 2.0 design styles. - http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/current-style.cfm
Regardless what anyone says, there is a market for this kind of work and you're missing out on making some serious money if you disregard it all together.
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06-30-2007, 06:44 PM
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Originally Posted by jon
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Ermm, these designs have been around for ages too. Only that people take notice of it only recently.
Web 2.0 is not about design anyway. 
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