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Tim O’Reilly Course Corrects the Definition of Web 2.0
- jrockway 18y agoI think "Web 2.0" is just a meaningless buzzword like "enterprise". It might actually mean something, but people have misused the word for so long that it doesn't actually mean anything in practice.
- jamesbritt 18y agoLuckily, though, that problem has been corrected for "Web 3.0" :)
- netcan 18y agoI think I would put Amazon on the map too.
- bhc3 18y agoAmazon started life in the Web 1.0 world. Buy stuff online. Once they added ratings and collaborative filtered recommendations, they became more 2.0.
- netcan 18y agoAnd those are the things that (to me) make Amazon Amazon. The things they have going for them are really: Brand/reliability (1.0), reviews/comments(2.0 - explicit user contributions) & the recommendation engine (2.0 - implicit user contributions). As just an online superstore where you can find anything, they'd've had a lot less of an edge. The search engine + thousands of web-shops complex create a good enough alternative.