They went on to ask what Web 2.0 meant to people who answered yes. The responses could be important to proponents of Web 2.0 because a coherent message is not getting out about what it is.
Some of the answers:
| It means a renewal of the web industry, a mature streamlining of previously hodge-podge technologies under a single slick monicker, associated with stuff like AJAX. |
| elementally: seperating content from structure. oh, and using helvetica rounded for display types and logos... |
| interactive web applications, malliable to uers' whims and designed in sweet pastels or earth tones, rounded corners, sweet fades. |
| Cross-platform web applications, usually with an AJAX display interface. Underlying processing can be handled many ways, but response time for the user is quick (much quicker than the Java interfaces from a few years ago). |
| A bit overhyped at this point, but to me it means an evolution of the web as a resource for accessing online applications and collaboration tools. |
| not sure |
| a set of evolution of ther web around scalability, cost effectiveness, remixable data, open source mentality architectur of participation |
| Open source, API, convenience, and innovation. |
| The pendulum has swung back to the little guy for now. Now the big guys like Murduch have to buy the little guys like MySpace. Curious to see how the big guys will actually regain the upper hand technically beyond aquisitions. What moves does Microsoft have left to try to kill web 2.0? Is the public finally too smart to fall for trojan programs from Microsoft whose ultimate goal is the payment of high license fees down the road. |
| I'm assuming this is Internet 2? |
| AJAX, rounded corners, user-customizable CSS interface...the layman's knowledge of it all. |
| Don't know - I've just heard it. |
| a more interactive, functional approach of web for both personal/commercial application |
| it's a broad term...to me, it is an evolved form of web use - strategic business and economic application of the technology |
| Buzzword for productivity or networking web apps, often ones that use AJAX, Ruby on Rails etc. Doesn't really mean much, not that bothered about it... |
| Mostly hype. |
