Comments on: On Web 2.0 and Unoriginality Redux http://www.rluxemburg.com/2007/05/30/on-web-20-and-unoriginality-redux/ It's Latin for "Let there be light" Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:43:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: seamus http://www.rluxemburg.com/2007/05/30/on-web-20-and-unoriginality-redux/#comment-844 seamus Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:07:14 +0000 http://www25.a2hosting.com/~rslux1/2007/05/30/on-web-20-and-unoriginality-redux/#comment-844 I think you're right that Web 2.0 could be used for improving existing technologies, and to an extent that's happening with open source efforts. However, I think that your definition of Web 2.0 might be different from that commonly used. Web 2.0 usually refers to a platform for user-generated content. Google doesn't generally do this kind of thing -- their technologies are all engineered in-house or acquired from start-ups. The Street View app could have been Web 2.0 if the pictures were submitted by users. The Street View thing doesn't bug me because it's just a documentation of the view from the middle of the street, and what could be more public than that? I'll just try to keep my naked jogs out of view of their camera van. I think you’re right that Web 2.0 could be used for improving existing technologies, and to an extent that’s happening with open source efforts.

However, I think that your definition of Web 2.0 might be different from that commonly used. Web 2.0 usually refers to a platform for user-generated content. Google doesn’t generally do this kind of thing — their technologies are all engineered in-house or acquired from start-ups. The Street View app could have been Web 2.0 if the pictures were submitted by users.

The Street View thing doesn’t bug me because it’s just a documentation of the view from the middle of the street, and what could be more public than that? I’ll just try to keep my naked jogs out of view of their camera van.

]]> By: Melinda http://www.rluxemburg.com/2007/05/30/on-web-20-and-unoriginality-redux/#comment-843 Melinda Thu, 31 May 2007 02:16:02 +0000 http://www25.a2hosting.com/~rslux1/2007/05/30/on-web-20-and-unoriginality-redux/#comment-843 Tech is about creating a need, and then providing the answer for it. It's not necessarily about solving what needs to be solved. I don't think you need an attitude adjustment, though. Tech is about creating a need, and then providing the answer for it. It’s not necessarily about solving what needs to be solved.

I don’t think you need an attitude adjustment, though.

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