Prehistoric Web 2.0
Here at O'Reilly Radar, we like to think we make fun of the Web 2.0 meme better than anyone. Even Nat's special talents, though, were exceeded by this line from a PR representative's recent email to the Radar group:
_________ __________ CEO __________ __________ has been obsessed with the idea of Web 2.0 for more than 10 years.
Web 2.0 is flying so fast these days, it's like Superman, speeding around the Earth to turn back time.
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Well...the phrase Web 2.0 is new, but the 'idea' (ideas) that define Web 2.0 are much older, and arguably one could have been obsessed with them since 1995.
'The network is the platform' doesn't seem that different from 'The network is the computer,' and Netscape was shipping IFC by 1996, possibly earlier.
Of course...that particular CEO is probably just a wanker.
There is a whole website making fun of Web 2.0!
http://web2.0validator.com/
Oh, it says "The score for http://radar.oreilly.com is 2 out of 10".
You really have to try harder
Rich, I doubt the CEO knew anything about it....
Bob, that's rad. We'll see if we can make it to 0 out of 10 sometime soon!
How do we know this isn't just sarcastic. As in "Gee, I think you idiots are really endearing, picking up on the stuff I've been saying for ten years."
Actually, most of the Web 2.0 stuff sounds like Rebol PR documents from 5 years ago.
The site is awfully wrong considering prototype.js from http://prototype.conio.net/ as the base of implementing AJAX! There are n number of sites that are using different frameworks and different NAMED js files :D
Hope I could point my mouse to the site and shout 'Riddiculus' and convert site in to blank page ;)
Pooran,
The idea of the web 2.0 validator is that there are lots of different attributes that might contribute to your Web 2.0 rating. prototype.js is just one of them.
You can also add your own rules via delicious. Using delicious as the source of your domain specific language rules is freaking brilliant.
They are letting anyone create executable code by adding it to a delicious description...
Heh check out the trendwatcher for "web 2.0" :)
Some graphs i found that track the number of occurances in different search engines over time.
http://trendwatcher.koan.net/node/797
also keeping track on venture capital funding for "web 2.0"
http://trendwatcher.koan.net/node/822
