[HacktionLab] web2.0 intro guides

[Zoe]

yeh why not let's move straight onto web 3.0 and the mycelial media 
networks that we really need to share info :-)

mp wrote:
> planet-mail at aktivix.org wrote:
>   
>> hey,
>>
>> here's the intro guides to web2.0 stuff that i promised
>>
>> Participatory Learning And Action
>> Volume 59, Number 1, June 2009
>>
>> Web 2.0 tools and approaches are radically changing the ways we  
>> create, share, collaborate and publish digital information through the  
>> Internet. Participatory Web 2.0 for development - or Web2forDev for  
>> short - is a way of employing web services to intentionally improve  
>> information-sharing and online collaboration for development.
>>     
>
> There are rather split opinions on this Web 2.0 business.
>
> Consider these quotes:
>
> # 1:
>
> "Web 2.0: to hopeful entrepreneurs, it has the sweet smell of money
> about it. To those of a more cynical disposition, the scent is more akin
> to *ahem* dookie. Web founder Tim Berners-Lee has just weighed in on the
> Web 2.0 question in a podcast interview for IBM, and he's not big on the
> term. In fact, Sir Tim has some really big doubts that Web 2.0 is
> different from Web 1.0 at all.
>
> When asked if it's fair to say that the difference between the two might
> be fairly described as "Web 1.0 is about connecting computers, while Web
> 2.0 is about connecting people," Berners-Lee replied, "Totally not. Web
> 1.0 was all about connecting people. It was an interactive space, and I
> think Web 2.0 is of course a piece of jargon, nobody even knows what it
> means. If Web 2.0 for you is blogs and wikis, then that is people to
> people. But that was what the Web was supposed to be all along. And in
> fact, you know, this 'Web 2.0,' it means using the standards which have
> been produced by all these people working on Web 1.0."" - from:
> http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2006/09/7650.ars
>
> #2:
>
> "If Web 2.0 means anything at all, its meaning lies in the rationale of
> venture capital. Web 2.0 represents the return of investment in internet
> startups. After the dotcom bust (the real end of Web 1.0) those wooing
> investment dollars needed a new rationale for investing in online
> ventures. ‘Build it and they will come’, the dominant attitude of the
> ’90s dotcom boom, along with the delusional ‘new economy’, was no longer
> attractive after so many online ventures failed. Building infrastructure
> and financing real capitalisation was no longer what investors were
> looking for. Capturing value created by others, however, proved to be a
> more attractive proposition." - from:
> http://www.metamute.org/en/InfoEnclosure-2.0
>
> just for info,
> -mp
>
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