L I B R A R Y A P P S

Module one... Web 2.0 terminology


O'Reilly.com founder Tim O'Reilly and Dale Dougherty first coined the term web 2.0.  Five years on from this original label they confirm that it is web network platform made up of many different software applications mechanised by the amount of people using them and their contributions.  The other web 2.0 labeller Darcy DiNucci in the Wikipedia site described Web 2.0 as a fragmented future.

Tim O'Reilly says....
Technologies have a social dimension beyond their mere mechanical performance.  We adopt new technologies largely because of what they do for us, but also in part because of what they mean to us. Often we refuse to adopt technology for the same reason: because of how the avoidance reinforces, or crafts our identity. 

In the modernized west, our decisions about technology are not made by the group, but by individuals. We choose what we want to adopt, and what we don’t. So on top of the ethnic choice of technologies a community endorses, we must add the individual layer of preference. We announce our identity by what stuff we use or refuse. Do you twitter? Have a big car? Own a motorcycle? Use GPS? Take supplements? Listen to vinyl? By means of these tiny technological choices we signal our identity

In the modernized west, our decisions about technology are not made by the group, but by individuals. We choose what we want to adopt, and what we don’t. So on top of the ethnic choice of technologies a community endorses, we must add the individual layer of preference. We announce our identity by what stuff we use or refuse. Do you twitter?

Sourced from:

http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2009/03/ethnic_technolo.php  10 March 2009





The term "Web 2.0" was first used in January 1999 by Darcy DiNucci, a consultant on electronic information design (information architecture). In her article, "Fragmented Future", DiNucci writes:<sup>[6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0</sup>
As quoted in O'Reilly.com 2009 http://www.web2summit.com/web2009/public/schedule/detail/10194
Chief among our insights was that "the network as platform" means far more than just offering old applications via the network ("software as a service"); it means building applications that literally get better the more people use them, harnessing network effects not only to acquire users, but also to learn from them and build on their contributions.
From Google and Amazon to Wikipedia, eBay, and craigslist, we saw that the value was facilitated by the software, but was co-created by and for the community of connected users. Since then, powerful new platforms like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter have demonstrated that same insight in new ways. Web 2.0 is all about harnessing collective intelligence.