There’s this term, Web 2.0, that’s being bandied about mercilessly these days. I’m not all that interested in buzzwords, but it seems like Web 2.0 represents _an accelerating movement_ of sorts, towarding toward a variety of different concepts that encompass the whole of the craft.
Web 2.0 has to do with design, usually clean and simple, with whitespace balanced by bold color and well-laid type. Web 2.0 has got __curves__, baby (ok, at least _rounded corners_). Web 2.0 is about feeds, Atom and RSS, and about REST and APIs. It’s about making things more interactive for the users’ benefit, not for the glitz. It’s about standards and making sure our shit still works without CSS or Javascript. It’s about usability (__finally!__) and experience. Web 2.0 talks the big talk about the two-way web and the machine-readable web. Microformats. Social software. The death of heirarchy. Small vs. Big. Etc.
What’s your take on Web 2.0?
_Edit: Damn, I’m writing all sorts of odd words lately. Towarding, indeed._
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