tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61015064673672265032024-08-28T13:34:19.800+08:00Web 2.0 is the 'buzz'...but is it more than just a new dot.com investment cycle? or all the things we thought the net could do in 1995 but found we couldn't? This blog supports research into the political and cultural economy that is Web 2.0... analysing what 'Web 2.0' is: not as a list of things you can do with networked computers, but rather seeing it as a phenomenon in its own right whose beguilingly simple, computer-nerd coded title says so little about so much.Matthew Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04794504410756312145noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101506467367226503.post-6664561820350540302007-05-30T12:08:00.000+08:002007-05-30T12:29:52.112+08:00

As a starting place for researching some of the particular technologies currently understood to be part of Web 2.0, I spent the morning delving into tagging/bookmarking sites. There are some obvious ones, that I have used before, such as del.icio.us and furl, but of course many more, all battling for mindshare and marketshare (and all demonstrating the primacy of free-use / advertising supported

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Considering the list of applications at AllThingsweb2 one has to conclude that either the name of that site means, all things on the Internet are now 2.0, or that there is so much definitional variety in the use of the term Web 2.0 that I should give up now. Example: This site lists Limewire -- it's a P2P filesharing utility - sure, that's good but is it Web 2.0? Of course, the irony is that the

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Welcome to my nightmare... attempting to understand the totality of 'Web 2.0'! To be precise, though, I am attempting to understand it as a multidimensional site, or location, for numerous political and cultural trends and tendencies currently at play through the Internet. Essentially, Web 2.0 labels both things happening, and mindsets being formed, all together becoming the name of the terrain

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