Re: Anybody using Web 2.0 sites/services for doc projects?

["Mike Starr" <mikestarr-techwr-l -at- writestarr -dot- com>]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/11/web_two_point_naught_answers/

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Borokowski" <athloi -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "Rebecca Stevenson" <rjstevenson -at- sprynet -dot- com>; 
<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 8:35 AM
Subject: Re: Anybody using Web 2.0 sites/services for doc projects?

> Web 2.0 means two things: the stateful web and the
> interactive web. HTTP was originally a stateless
> protocol, meaning that each information exchange
> occurred without a persistent session. With the use of
> XML, Java and active server scripting (AJAX, etc) the
> web is now stateful, like a telnet session. Because
> this requires a newer-generation browser, server
> configuration and approach to programming web pages
> (not HTML but XHTML and JavaScript, generally) it is
> considered a new web paradigm.
>
> Naturally, this has consequences. A stateful web
> encourages more interaction between user and site, and
> that requires user-to-user interaction, something
> inherited from the success of IM and IRC, the sleeper
> killer apps of the internet age. This is the
> "interactive web" component of Web 2.0.
>
> Web 2.0 is hard to define because it is both
> technological and social (like the success of the
> telephone). It is a large leap in that it moves the
> web from HTML anyone can create to a salad of
> disunified technologies that require some programming
> background. It seems to me that the technological
> component is here to stay, and the interactive
> component has moved to the web and is unlikely to go
> away but also is not as important as many think it is. 

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