The Web 2.0 meme
Are you having trouble synthesizing the important lessons about where the Web is headed? If so, here's a great Web 2.0 "meme" map from the guy who is thinking a lot about it, Tim O'Reilly. It comes from a brainstorming session he hosted at a gathering called FOO Camp last month. This map maybe a useful filter to see things as we head into next week, when O'Reilly's Web 2.0 conference will be held in San Francisco. We will be attending. There is a lot happening, so we will try to focus on the most important developments. (Via Jeff, via Jason Ball)
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http://www.siliconbeat.com/cgi-bin/mt331/mt-tb.cgi/746
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Barb Dybwad at the Social Software blog has a much more refined take on this at
http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000170061010/
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Actually, there are a series of interesting Web 2.0 visualization that have been created this week as part of an ongoing Web 2.0 blogoposium. Barb did this as part of it, I believe.
Check all various Web 2.0 visualizations contributed so far here:
http://web2.wsj2.com/blogoposiumasweb2example.htm
Dion Hinchcliffe on September 30, 2005 1:44 PMComment link
For what it's worth, I have written a few posts that attempt to make sense of the WHAT, WHY and HOW of Web 2.0, the most recent of which is called, "Putting some meat on the Web 2.0 bones." If interested in such things, check it out:
http://thenetworkgarden.blogs.com/weblog/2005/09/putting_some_me.html
Mark Sigal on September 30, 2005 3:14 PMComment link