Comments on: imagine if web 2.0 had happened first

By: Venkat

Venkat — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:00:56 +0000

We talk about humanification of the web. But what about humanification of software development process itself.
Object orientation has not achieved that. Because we have not yet worried about the relations between natural language and information models in a systematic way.

By: Jim Gleeson

Jim Gleeson — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 21:21:12 +0000

Thing is, I really don’t like people who have the need to label everything. Humanization? Personification? Humanification? just another buzzword, just another “fresh spin” on something that is already there.
To say that web 2.0 is any less after money than the previous version is like saying that the alternative movement is no less mainstream than the mainstream movement. Or to say that record companies used to be about the music and now they are about the money. Says who?

By: Mack Collier

Mack Collier — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 08:16:03 +0000

“We needed the lessons of 1.0 to prepare us for the richness of 2.0 (which is much bigger than the blogoshphere)”
Hammer meets nail.

By: everysandwich

everysandwich — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 20:50:45 +0000

All this talk celebrating things human reminds me of some current microsoft campaign. That can’t be right.

By: David Armano

David Armano — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 02:55:39 +0000

If Web 2.0 happened in back in 1998 the bubble burst would have been 10X more violent, spectacular and ridiculous. We needed the lessons of 1.0 to prepare us for the richness of 2.0 (which is much bigger than the blogoshphere)
We’re all wiser and better individuals with the dreaded boom behind us—and that’s why 2.0 will have a better chance of fulfilling the hype. That’s just my opinion…having been fortunate enough to keep my job throughout the whole mess.

By: Matt Propst

Matt Propst — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 02:11:51 +0000

If Web 2.0 had happened first, and the web was “humanized”, and assuming you couldn’t change history, and the dot com bust still occured.…
everyone would realize “Damn, she wasn’t lying, it’s true that no one cares about what I think, say, or feel.”
We’d be a world full of unfeeling drones, creating static webpages ushering in the web 1.0 static lifestyle.
EEK! the stuff of nightmares!

By: Kathy Sierra

Kathy Sierra — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 01:25:12 +0000

Johnnie: using existing words is so Web 1.0.

By: Dennis Howlett

Dennis Howlett — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 01:07:20 +0000

I’m coming across a number of companies that survived the dot bomb era who are saying that today’s convergence of technologies around social computing have validated what they were trying to do way back when. The difference is accessibility — largely through the fact we have (relatively) sophisticated systems at almost give away prices that previously would have cost an arm, a leg and most vital parts in between. That makes sense to me.

By: Paul Fabretti

Paul Fabretti — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 22:38:53 +0000

What would we theorise over?! Are you saying that boo.com WOULDN’T have gone bust and that the funds would have gone to clear 3rd world debt 10 years ago?!!!

By: Johnnie Moore

Johnnie Moore — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 20:18:07 +0000

Agreed. And could we avoid creating a new word and just call it humanisation?

By: Paul Fabretti

Paul Fabretti — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:36:38 +0000

WAAAAYYY to close to hime that one!