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2.0 Expo: Internet is just a baby.Tim
O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., and top
responsible of the Web 2.0 Expo of San Francisco, tells that
<<the bursting of the
dot-com bubble in the fall of 2001 marked a turning point for the
web. Many people concluded that the web was overhyped, when in
fact bubbles and consequent shakeouts appear to be a common
feature of all technological revolutions. Shakeouts typically mark
the point at which an ascendant technology is ready to take its
place at center stage. The pretenders are given the bum's rush,
the real success stories show their strength, and there begins to
be an understanding of what separates one from the other.
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.
In
the year and a half since, the term "Web 2.0" has
clearly taken hold, with more than 9.5 million citations in
Google. But there's still a huge amount of disagreement about just
what Web 2.0 means, with some people decrying it as a meaningless
marketing buzzword, and others accepting it as the new
conventional wisdom>>.
The
Web 2.0 Expo of San Francisco brought us thousands of interesting
news. Here you have some of
the best summaries of it:
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