We’ve all heard of the websites selling cat food. Yes, for those not in the know..before the bubble burst, people were actually making websites to sell cat food. And, I feel something similar is about to happen, right now!
It’s called web 2.0 . It’s the new internet. New ways, and yes better ways to organize and acquire your data. RSS feeds, tagging, blogs, AJAX and whatnot .
Examples of ‘web 2.0 enabled’ stuff:
- RSS Feeds: Every site or blog has one
- Social Recommendation: Last.fm
- AJAX: Gmail started it off, everyone else is playing catch up
- Tagging: Services like Simpy or the more popular del.icio.us
It’s not that I am against new technology. I use these services everyday. I find them more intuitive to use. Yes, it rocks.
The reason i start hating web 2.0 is sites like hXXp://www.riffs.com/, hXXp://justcurio.us/, hXXp://www.shadows.com/, hXXp://www.43people.com/ (no, i will not link to them). I’m pretty sure that there are several more. And there are more coming every week. Everything seems like a copy of a copy of a copy (ironic, huh).
A more detailed, and a web 2.0 dedicated page is flock sucks . Though, the site started out against the browser flock, it’s now moved on to a anti- web2.0 stance.
Well, all I would say is choose your services by what it offers, and don’t jump on the hype bandwagon.
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It’s so tightly packed, the whole thing that now the only thing that makes a difference is the way it’s presented. How people can properly put together all these technologies and make a good use of it. I wouldn’t go in for a Web 2.0 service just cause it shows of a whole new range of geek stuff. Innovation scores now !
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