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    Describing The Web 2.0 Information Ecosystem

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    posted Monday, 24 October 2005

    It's refereshing to see people like Stowe Boyd take a serious look at where Web 2.0 is heading these days with an relatively open mind, though there are still     plenty (Chris Pirillo) of others (Matthew Gertner) keeping it constructive or at least keeping it in perspective (David Hornik).

    Stowe, head of the intriguing Corante (the world's first blog media company), has recently decided to embark on an exciting exploration of the visionary people trying to build the future of the Web. While Stowe may have some minor details of Web 2.0 askew, he overall has a brilliant plan to start a video production titled New Visionaries: Rebooting the Web. Stowe has been in contact with a bunch of the key folks who have been embarking on Web 2.0 services lately including "Catarina Fake and Stuart Butterfield of Flickr, Dave Sifry of Technorati, Jason Fried of 37Signals, and Felix Petersen of Plazes.com, to mention just a few."

    What's interesting to me is that Stowe specifically calls out this quote from Stephen Johnson's excellent Discover magazine article on Web 2.0 that was inspirational to him: "The result is the equivalent of a massive software upgrade for the entire Web, what some commentators have taken to calling Web 2.0. Essentially, the Web is shifting from an international library of interlinked pages to an information ecosystem, where data circulate like nutrients in a rain forest."



    These are very good high level descriptions of the phenomenon, even if they would cause Web 2.0 purists to squirm a bit. But the essential details are correct and accessible in a way that the diagram above, clear as it is, ultimately is not unless you are a Web technologist.

    This is something I struggle with often, how to explain Web 2.0 to non-technical people, the ones who ultimately must embrace, become enmeshed in, and sustain the Web 2.0 information and participation ecosystem. Furthermore, I've managed to get just about every one of my friends and family hooked on Flickr, for example, but not be able to explain Web 2.0 to them in a way they could repeat. It was this viral propagation of Flickr adoption within my social circle that was one of my first a-ha moments with Web 2.0. This was when I realized something was different. Even my 70-year old mother, who before could barely use e-mail, was now voraciously browsing pictures and going through all the tags in my Flickr picture collection. You really have to see Web 2.0 to understand it.

    So, while I labor away on the work I am creating here trying explain Web 2.0 to folks that want to build it, it will probably end up being folks like Stowe Boyd that end up bringing a larger understanding of Web 2.0 to all the people that will actually use it, by showing it to them. I wish him luck and I'll be posting updates of his work as it becomes available.

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    1. Chris Pirillo left...
    Monday, 24 October 2005 11:37 pm :: http://chris.pirillo.com/

    How can you start to define something that isn't yet complete? :)


    2. Ken Yarmosh left...
    Tuesday, 25 October 2005 9:10 am :: http://www.technosight.com/blog/category

    Dion...I would also encourage your readers to check out my interviews which I have been doing over the last two months - they are text only because the people I often get the chance to 'sit down with' are very busy building Web 2.0 products and services or the business behind them. Most recently, I interviewed Tony Conrad, the CEO of Sphere, a new blog search engine currently in beta testing. I've had a couple others, including one with Greg Linden of Findory. Tomorrow, I am posting my latest interview with Ben Ruedlinger, the founder of Blogniscient (some exciting news about Blogniscient will also be announced quite soon, so stay tuned).

    Emily Chang also has been doing some great interviews over on eHub, so be sure to check those out as well.


    3. raheel left...
    Friday, 3 February 2006 3:00 am

    I am looking for the web 2 kinda thinks like Blogs a part of this games and make the people freely to access and more interaction with in there zone its really hard to describe the term Web 2 with the comparison of WWW most of the people don't know the difference between the Internet and the WWW they believe WWW is the Internet. Technology evolves. It builds on what came before. It learns from past mistakes and takes advantage of unrealized opportunities. This is as true of America's Industrial Revolution as it is for the Internet. There were lots of false starts, missteps and abject failures during the rise of technology in the early and mid-1800s. The same is true of the current technological revolution underway on your computer screen daily.


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    Thanks for very interesting article


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    Ken, you’re right. Very good article


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    very interesting article, thank you.


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    Thanks for very interesting article. btw. I really enjoyed reading all of your posts. It’s interesting to read ideas, and observations from someone else’s point of view… makes you think more.


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    thanks


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    Good article.


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    thanks.. very good


    11. duman6 left...
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    very interesting article. thanks a lot


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    very nice article


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    couldn't agree more.


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    Thanks for very interesting article


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