Web 2.0 - Give me a break
OK, I think everybody is going a bit overboard with all of the buzz words lately on the internet. It’s really feeling like “the boom” again - Henry Blodget’s even back in the picture (look forward to a post on why I don’t think that’s a bad thing).
One catch-phrase that has really started bugging me lately, though, is Web 2.0. Here is a definition from Wikipedia:
Web 2.0 refers to a perceived transition of the World Wide Web from a collection of websites to a full-fledged computing platform serving web applications to end users. The proponents of this thinking expect that ultimately Web 2.0 services will replace desktop computing applications for many purposes.
Why do we have rename the whole internet because of an evolution of technology? This doesn’t make any sense to me. Do we constantly rename everything in our lives just because we have made them better? Are our brains not large enough to conceptualize the idea that technology is evolving - do we really have to name these technological shifts?
That being said I am a big fan of the implications of this new shift in application hosting. As bandwidth limitations are lifted I predict a trend towards (or a return to) client-server technologies. To get a glimpse of what I’m talking about read about Jeremy Zawodny’s 30 day webmail challenge.
Kind of ironic, isn’t it? Bill Gates frees us from the mainframe and 30 years later (I’m crossing my fingers here) we realize that Larry Ellison was right all along. That’s how I’m hoping it will play out anyway.
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