See here for the full article: http://web2.wsj2.com/five_reasons_why_web_20_matters.htm 1. The Focus of Technology Moves To People With Web 2.0. One of the lessons the software industry relearns every generation is that it’s always a people problem. It’s not that people are the actual problem. It’s when software developers use technology to solve our problems instead of [...]
“Web 2.0 is the network as platform, spanning all connected devices; Web 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of that platform: delivering software as a continually-updated service that gets better the more people use it, consuming and remixing data from multiple sources, including individual users, while providing their own [...]
Synopsized vesion of Tim O’Reilly’s piece called: What is Web 2.0? Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/6228 The key Points: The Web is the platform: The web itself is the OS. The value has moved “up the stack” from client-server commodity technology to the services delivered over the web [...]