Web 2.0 Cracks Start to Show
Spam, scams and scatterbrains — the same problems that plagued the old internet are cropping up again in a new wave of technologies known collectively as Web 2.0.
But this time around, proponents say Web 2.0 has been better engineered to withstand the troubles that wrecked Usenet, BBSes and free e-mail.
The cycle is so predictable, it’s almost a natural law: Every new internet movement popular enough to generate buzz also generates a backlash.
This time, the debate revolves around the cracks that are starting to appear in Web 2.0, a term coined by O’Reilly Media Vice President Dale Dougherty to describe a post-dot-com generation of sites and services that use the web as a platform — things like Flickr, BitTorrent, tagging and RSS syndication.
so, i mentioned web 2.0 in a previous entry, but i didn’t take the time to describe what it is. this article talks about it briefly, but i like that this article is less about describing what it is and much more about describing the issues and barriers that web 2.0 is encountering. if you want to better understand web 2.0 then i’d recommend this article.