ongoing – Web 2.0 or Not?
Tim Bray follows up on his quest to get people to stop using the slogan Web 2.0 or at least, to agree on what it is. Here’s the gist of it:
AJAX? Maybe. Tagsonomies? Not yet. Social networks? Not yet. Blogging and Syndication? Definitely
Hmmm… Stephen Downes said so much ealier: RSS is the Semantic Web. Tim Bray would probably say that Atom is the Semantic Web. Who cares, the message is the same. If there is anything transforming the web right now, it has to do with blogging.
Montreal, Canada 
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I stumbled upon your post about web 2.0 and AJAX.
Another site that is using AJAX extensively is http://www.BlinkList.com. For full disclosure, this is our site. I just wrote a blog post with all the major AJAX features that we are using on BlinkList in case you are interested.
http://mindvalley.blogspot.com/2005/08/blinklist-embraces-ajax-in-action.html
BlinkList is also a great place to learn about Ajax
http://www.blinklist.com/tag/ajax/
If you do get a chance to play with it, let us know your thoughts! We are always eager to improve our site and improve our use of AJAX as one of the core frameworks.
Mike
Comment by Mike — 11/8/2005 @ 12:35
Mike: It is a nice looking site. Not sure it is relevant to the Web 2.0 discussion though. You are borderline on spamming here, but I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt.
Comment by Daniel Lemire — 11/8/2005 @ 14:15
One thing you didn’t mention which is making progress everyday is microformats. It’s not about shiny and new, but about current use cases, and encapsulating that in tiny formats. Built on xhtml, good for calendars, addresses, reviews, etc.
Comment by Robin — 13/8/2005 @ 22:47
True Robin. True.
Comment by Daniel Lemire — 14/8/2005 @ 8:00
do you have any examples of useful mix between web 2.0 aplication and olap?
Comment by dvir — 29/12/2005 @ 7:39