This blog is supposed to be about the concept that is called Web 2.0, so I suppose I had better take a stab at defining it. First, let's get the obvious things out of the way. Yes, it was a marketing ...

What exactly is the web? It seems like a stupid question because we all know the answer: the web is the thing Tim Berners-Lee invented in 1989. It’s not the same thing as “the internet,” which is what ...

Welcome to the new frontier of Web 2.0. Imagine sitting in your living room and pulling up a favorite TV show to watch online. Easily distracted — who isn’t these days — you simultaneously begin a ...

A definitive definition of a Web 2.0 “Social Network” is as hard to come by as a definitive definition of Web 2.0 itself. Tim Berners-Lee recently noted (see “Evolving from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0”) the ...

We have yet to agree on a sharp-edged definition of "Web 2.0," but many of the technologies coalescing around this loosely defined, hyper-hyped buzzword—everything from Web services, the Ajax Web ...