Web 2.0 Expo

February 20, 2007 by  
Filed under Geek Get-Togethers, Tech News

I got an advertisement in the mail today about the Web 2.0 Expo from O’Reilly. After I read through it, I was really interested in going. It’s in San Francisco this year, from April 15 – 18th.

I got more curious as to what they meant by “Web 2.0.” And I found this definition:

The concept of “Web 2.0″ began with a conference brainstorming session between O’Reilly and MediaLive International. Dale Dougherty, web pioneer and O’Reilly VP, noted that far from having “crashed”, the web was more important than ever, with exciting new applications and sites popping up with surprising regularity. What’s more, the companies that had survived the collapse seemed to have some things in common. Could it be that the dot-com collapse marked some kind of turning point for the web, such that a call to action such as “Web 2.0″ might make sense? We agreed that it did, and so the Web 2.0 Conference was born.

They formulated a sense of Web 2.0 with the following examples:

Web 1.0   Web 2.0
DoubleClick –> Google AdSense
Ofoto –> Flickr
Akamai –> BitTorrent
mp3.com –> Napster
Britannica Online –> Wikipedia
personal websites –> blogging
evite –> upcoming.org and EVDB
domain name speculation –> search engine optimization
page views –> cost per click
screen scraping –> web services
publishing –> participation
content management systems –> wikis
directories (taxonomy) –> tagging (“folksonomy”)
stickiness –> syndication

It’s a very interesting concept, and I hope my workplace will allow me to go to the conference. Sounds like fun and geeky!

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