Last Word: Wading through the Web 2.0 Hype
Web 2.0 has emerged as one of the top buzz words of the last 12 month. But, is it hype, a passing fad or an important emerging trend that IT executives must know more about? Like the major IT paradigm changes before it, Web 2.0 is a little bit of each!
The difficulty with the Web 2.0 is a lack of a clear definition and so it can suffer from being “all things to all people”. According to the Wikipedia, “Web 2.0 is a term often applied to a perceived ongoing transition of the World Wide Web from a collection of websites to a full-fledged computing platform serving web applications to end users.”
