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Are you Web 2.0?

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What is web 2.0?

• There is no “real” definition, but it’s a recognizable pattern…

• … where services tend to be user-centric, distributed, co-created, evolving, open and extensible with rich user experience

• Tag clouds and rounded corners are entirely optional

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O’Reilly’s take

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User-centric

• Personalised &&|| Personal

• “Identity 2.0”

• Profiles

• Usability

• “Long tail”

• Self-service

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Distributed

• “Do one thing well”

• Widgets

• Software As A Service

• Infrastructure As A Service

• Device independence

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Co-created

• User created content

• “Architecture of participation”

• Creative Commons

• Remix Culture

• “Radical trust”

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Evolving

• Feedback loops

• “Perpetual beta”

• Emergent behaviour

• “Collective intelligence” & social networks

• Layered metadata

• Folksonomy

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Open & Extensible

• Proper URLs For Proper Objects

• Feeds

• APIs

• Microformats

• REST & open data

• Hackability

• Mashups

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Rich user experience

• Rich web applications– Highly responsive interfaces– AJAX

• Rich internet applications– iTunes

• Smartifacts– Nabaztag

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The dark side…

• Walled gardens that “look” 2.0: Facebook

• Accessibility

• Usability

• Rights and licenses

• Reliability

• Sustainability

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Barriers…

• Third-party licenses

• Requires actual users!

• Doesn’t fit the “brown bread” ethos…