28.09.2005 ~ Web 2.0
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Dez Iddon wonders if the noise surrounding 'Web 2.0' is just another nasty throw-back to the bad old .com days
"Nothing will be the same again!"
We have heard it all before. The ideal or application that promises to change our lives so fundamentally that we'll gasp and wonder why no-one had thought of it before. Investment and venture capital will pour and hopes will raise until the bubble finally bursts...
Ok... So what is web 2.0?
Put simply - a hell of a lot of things! From a web dev's point of view it means lots of AJAX calls to 'produce a seamless user experience'. Oh Joy! I've gotten sooo sick of the hype around AJAX these last few months - IT'S NOT NEW!!! David 'Rukkus' Conde and myself built the Copernicus booking application around the idea way back in 2002, even then it was old!
Web 2.0 also seems to revolve around other peoples content. Think wikis, bookmark managers, photo galleries and user comments engines... but add a little AJAX! The same but different? And without editorial controls many of these ideals will flounder (wikis being the prime example) under the shear amount of user-contributed crap that will flood their servers.
Its not all bad ... two things I've seen that I really like are TAGs and APIs! Web2.0 brings along a concept of data ownership that extends beyond the domain-space. Nice idea! Imagine a user being able to tag some information, regardless of where it exists.Sweet! Again the idea isn't new, tags are simply a logical extension of meta-keywords. The APIs, while handy, aren't particularly new either - web services have provided this for a number of years. So where does this revolution leave us?
Exactly where we started!
Web2.0 doesn't offer anything new, its just a brand-name for some existing technologies that the unimaginative recently discovered work well together. And as my Dad always said :
"It doesn't matter whether you've told her you have a twelve inch dick or that its going to be the best movie in the world ever - if you're going to build it up you have to expect it to tumble down. Besides. Your mother likes surprises!"
So where to?
Me? I'm going to stick to my progressive enhancement ideal - it already covers the Web2.0 concepts - but can go a hell of a lot further!