Tim O’Reilly Corrects the Definition of Web 2.0
Tim O’Reilly who coined the term Web 2.0 has corrected the definition of Web 2.0 and offered more clarity on what the term means in present context.
“I define Web 2.0 as the design of systems that harness network effects to get better the more people use them, or more colloquially, as “harnessing collective intelligence.” This includes explicit network-enabled collaboration, to be sure, but it should encompass every way that people connected to a network create synergistic effects.”
The impetus for Tim’s post was that people leave Google and its search engine off the list of Web 2.0 companies. As Tim writes, seeing the power of what Google’s search engine did was part of the notion of Web 2.0.
Web 2.0 more than explicit Scoicalness
Via blog ‘I’m Not Actually a Geek’