Discuss: Web 3.0
by Jeffrey Zeldman
- Editorial Comments
83 Web 2.0 is more than Ajax
When I think of Web 2.0 Ajax is certainly part of the equation. But I think the hype pertaining to Web 2.0 is far more than about using javascript and the DOM to create pages that refresh inline. It is about community, commenting, tagging, and users creating a website versus a company creating it for them.
One example that comes to mind is google. Google has built this fantastic infrastructure around indexing the web. Still, if I want to search, say, Ajax or web design, I could be better off at Delicious. Delicious is just a platform and the community builds the product. Same with flickr, digg, technorati, etc.
I certainly share your disdain with a lot of the hype surrounding Web 2.0, but I think it is more than fancy inline forms! (BTW, this live preview is very cool!!)
posted at 10:26 pm on March 11, 2006 by Hadley Stern
84 What a great post
Thank you for saying what 89% of the Internet population is thinking. The other 11% are too busy doing bong hits.
posted at 12:31 am on March 30, 2006 by Mr. Marquee
85 The best of web 2.0
This site has a great user driven list: koolweb2.com
Best of Web 2.0 sites ranked by actual users. Drag & drop sites to desired spot in the list and submit rankings. Overall rankings reflect cumulative average of all user submissions. Recommend a new site as well..
posted at 11:00 pm on April 16, 2006 by too bew
86 Google work is good
I think is possible to respect some rights to the produced contain, but after some years, I think it will be more interest to show that to world .In this way that information could bring knowledge to some many people in so many country.
That is the main reason to defend this kind of projects
posted at 04:38 am on April 20, 2006 by MKT WEB
87 like so much hype-wool being pulled over decent de
i couldn’t agree more. only until recently did i de-mystify the core piece that makes AJAX do what it does — and if someone had told me two years ago that all it was, is clever usage of XMLHttpRequest as yet another way to reduce the number of trips a client (browser) makes to the server, i would have started injecting it into nearly every application i’ve built from scratch in recent past.
as it were, the hype had me believing it was a far more complex thing than it really is, requiring coursework i, a mere freelancer, could not nearly afford.
posted at 03:26 pm on May 15, 2006 by kris gale
88 Infos
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posted at 03:51 am on May 21, 2006 by Termin Erinnerung
89 Infos
Hi! Thank you for these valuable informations…
Greetings from Germany
Sam.
posted at 03:51 am on May 21, 2006 by Termin Erinnerung
90 Bubble 2.0
Well said!
Like the great Mr. Zeldman I too loved the web for it’s own sake, distained the “irrational excuberance” of 1998-2001 as blind capitalist love held sway over our open source-based shareware/freeware-birthing world weird web. When the house of VC cards crumbled, relief came with a giant thud as my bank account bottomed out… and ideas flourished. Great things are afoot, yet, lest we have learned nothing, let not the money mongers steer the ship: do good webs—simple, clean, human and inspiring (like this site) and good will come… again and again. Else “meet the new boss same as the old boss.”
posted at 01:23 am on June 6, 2006 by Michael Cummings
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81 actionscript
developing a wireframe for a flash app is also a pain.
posted at 08:15 am on March 5, 2006 by Gary Hussey