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Paul Graham on Web 2.0
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Does "Web 2.0" mean anything? Till recently I thought it didn’t, but the truth turns out to be more complicated. Originally, yes, it was meaningless. Now it seems to have acquired a meaning. And yet those who dislike the term are probably right, because if it means what I think it does, we don’t need it.
I first heard the phrase "Web 2.0" in the name of the Web 2.0 conference in 2004. At the time it was supposed to mean using "the web as a platform," which I took to refer to web-based applications. [1]
So I was surprised at a conference this summer when Tim O’Reilly led a session intended to figure out a definition of "Web 2.0." Didn’t it already mean using the web as a platform? And if it didn’t already mean something, why did we need the phrase at all?
Full Discussion: http://www.paulgraham.com/web20.html
(Many thanks to John Masterson of Modwest.com for passing this along. Russ)
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