Web 2.0 Coverage

There have been numerous interesting Web 2.0 related posts in the last 24 hours as the Web 2.0 blogoposium begins today and the O'Reilly Web 2.0 conference looms.

The unauthorized Microsoft Weblog has a new bit about Microsoft's reorg strategy and Web 2.0. It's the fairly standard line about Microsoft moving away from the upgrade cycle and going to a services model similar (though not exactly the same) as Web 2.0. But mostly it's not about real Web 2.0.

On the other hand, Phil Wainwright's ZDnet blog has a terrific post about the The great Web 2.0 application (s)mash-up. Phil has some insightful analysis with plenty of relevant links, I encourage you to read it closely. Best quote: "Individual software vendors, however extensive and well-funded they may be, cannot possibly prevail against the sheer innovative diversity and economic efficiency of the Web 2.0 ecosystem." Thanks to Father of Web 2.0, Richard MacManus for the link from Read/Write Web.

The legendary Dave Winer had some critical things to say about Web 2.0 in yesterday's Web 2.0 is Really Simple post. Dave's view, unfortunately, is pretty myopic and he seems to believe that Web 2.0 revolves around RSS, which is really only a small part of the larger Web 2.0 story.

Susan Mernit also agrees that Dave has missed the mark on Web 2.0 so far. MacManus chimes in on Dave's comments too.

A post yesterday by Andy Dabydeen makes reference to the new Discover and BusinessWeek articles on Web 2.0. Unfortunately, the excellent Discover article by Stephen Berlin Johnson is behind a for-pay wall but the BusinessWeek articles are not.

Open Synapse put up quite a post yesterday on Why Work On The Desktop Anymore? Discussing the Web 2.0 movement away from working with ponderous desktop software towards working directly on the Web, the post then reviews some of the more interesting Ajax/Web 2.0 applications including the very intriging Ajax desktop replacement framework Bindows, and some others. The author is not exactly holding his breath to see if desktop apps disappear and notes that not everyone has the available bandwidth to do everything on the Web.

Finally, Donna Maurer posted some coverage this morning of Jeff Veen's workshop on Web Essentials and Web 2.0, and even has a link to a new post by Jeff Veen about giving up control on the Web and the Web 2.0 meme.

Update: Joshua Porter also posted some thought-provoking ideas on Web 2.0 concepts yesterday. A must-read for serious Web 2.0 followers, Joshua enumerates some important Web 2.0 questions that need answers as well as some that already do. Good stuff.

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