Again, Web 2.0

ONE of the most commonly used phrases on the world wide web (www) today is "Web 2.0." It seems like every web solutions company is using this phrase to sell its stuff.

According to Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, Web 2.0 can refer to a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services — such as social-networking sites, wikis, and folksonomies [collaborative tagging schemes] — which aim to facilitate creativity, collaboration, and sharing between users.

There is no doubt the www has advanced significantly since inception, but there really is no new version of the www. It is simply much more useful to the everyday person. However, if we counted each major innovation as a whole number and each minor revision as a tenth, we would already be into double digits.

Why are we calling it "Web 2.0"? That's will be in the next article . (*)