Jeffrey Zeldman has a blog post entitled Web 2.0 Thinking Game where he writes
A few weeks back, The Economist was calling “Web 2.0″ a trend. Their phrase was, “hot Web 2.0 trend.” The magazine now intends “Web 2.0″ to be understood as a sort of second edition: This week’s pairing of Google and YouTube may come to be remembered as the moment “Web 2.0″—ie, the web, version two—came of age. Clearly “Web 2.0″ means different things to different journalists on different days. Mostly it means nothing—except a bigger paycheck. But let’s simplify what The Economist is saying: Web 1.0: AOL buys Time Warner.Web 2.0: Google buys YouTube. Put another way: Web 1.0: New media company buys old media company.Web 2.0: New media company buys new media company. If we’re stuck with this meaningless Web 2.0 label, let’s at least have some fun with it. Here’s my new game. I’ll start, you finish:...Web 1.0: Users create the content (Slashdot).Web 2.0: Users create the content (Flickr). Web 1.0: Crap sites on Geocities.Web 2.0: Crap sites on MySpace....Web 1.0: Karma Points.Web 2.0: Diggs. Web 1.0: Cool Site of the Day.Web 2.0: Technorati.com....Now you try it!
This week’s pairing of Google and YouTube may come to be remembered as the moment “Web 2.0″—ie, the web, version two—came of age.
Clearly “Web 2.0″ means different things to different journalists on different days. Mostly it means nothing—except a bigger paycheck. But let’s simplify what The Economist is saying:
Web 1.0: AOL buys Time Warner.Web 2.0: Google buys YouTube.
Put another way:
Web 1.0: New media company buys old media company.Web 2.0: New media company buys new media company.
If we’re stuck with this meaningless Web 2.0 label, let’s at least have some fun with it. Here’s my new game. I’ll start, you finish:...Web 1.0: Users create the content (Slashdot).Web 2.0: Users create the content (Flickr).
Web 1.0: Crap sites on Geocities.Web 2.0: Crap sites on MySpace....Web 1.0: Karma Points.Web 2.0: Diggs.
Web 1.0: Cool Site of the Day.Web 2.0: Technorati.com....Now you try it!
There are a lot of funny ones in the comments as well such as
Web 1.0: Old folks have no clue. Web 2.0: My parents just left a comment on my blog. - CharlieWeb 1.0: Rational Unified Process implementing J2EE Web 2.0: “Getting Real” using RoR - Kevan EmmotWeb 1.0: 20,000 Hits on my webpage! Web 2.0: Ive been dugg 1000 times on Digg! - Regnard RaquedanWeb 1.0: Pamela Anderson Web 2.0: Paris Hilton - Chase
Web 1.0: Old folks have no clue. Web 2.0: My parents just left a comment on my blog. - Charlie
Web 1.0: Rational Unified Process implementing J2EE Web 2.0: “Getting Real” using RoR - Kevan Emmot
Web 1.0: 20,000 Hits on my webpage! Web 2.0: Ive been dugg 1000 times on Digg! - Regnard Raquedan
Web 1.0: Pamela Anderson Web 2.0: Paris Hilton - Chase
Here're a couple of my own, let's see what you guys come up with
Web 1.0: Netscape IPOWeb 2.0: Google IPO
Web 1.0: My startup just IPOed, I'm gonna be richWeb 2.0: My startup just got bought by Google, I'm gonna be rich
Web 1.0: NapsterWeb 2.0: YouTube
Web 1.0: Yahoo! BookmarksWeb 2.0: del.icio.us
Web 1.0: Java appletsWeb 2.0: Widgets
Web 1.0: Beth Goza Web 2.0: Niniane Wang