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Founding Web 2.0 Workgroup member Richard MacManus has recently become concerned about the cynicism of the Web 2.0 naysayers
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Dec. 19, 2005 03:45 PM
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 Founding Web 2.0 Workgroup member Richard MacManus has recently become concerned about the cynicism of the Web 2.0 naysayers. To the point he feels like abandoning the term altogether. Though I understand where he's coming from, I believe he's somewhat over-concerned. To Richard, I say there will always be naysayers, no matter what is happening. And in this case, they generally aren't right.In any case, I find the arguments that most folks have against Web 2.0 to be very similar to the ones that people have made against a similar software concept, Service-Oriented Architecture. As I pointed out recently, Gartner thinks SOA will underpin 80% of all software development by the year 2008. Yet you can find otherwise completely responsible folks like Microsoft's Rich Turner claiming it doesn't exist at all. Unfortunately this, like denying Web 2.0 exists and is important, just belies reality. People are building and wiring together services into enterprise-wide and global service architectures, both SOA-style and Web 2.0-style. And on a very wide scale too. Some significant examples of SOA successes can be found on this list from IBM or in giant SOA projects like the DoD's Horizontal Fusion program or the nascent Global Information Grid. Web 2.0 and SOA are both huge movements that are happening, like it or not. (More importantly, see the massive list of Web 2.0 software below if you're not sure) Unfortunately, folks like Russell Shaw (author of the ZDNet article mentioned above), seem to think that Web 2.0 is an attempt to describe something enitrely new. It doesn't. As Tim O'Reilly made clear in his seminal description of Web 2.0 earlier this year, it represents the ideas that actually worked in the first generation of the Web. The arguments that folks like Shaw use, like saying that Web 2.0 is too big an umbrella, and represents unrelated concepts, and is nothing new, shows how uninformed even the experts are. And also represents a poor job by the folks that discuss it publicly (though the Web 2.0 Workgroup is certainly trying.) Unfortunately, all of this creates a distorted and incomplete view that is then propogated by the mainstream press, making it worse. So like any topic, none of this will stop folks, who without facts and who won't bother to actually study the ideas, from joining the naysayer bandwagon. But in the end, it's just like Shaw says, denying what is happening is like saying the earth is flat. As my post last week about the incredible Web 2.0 software that was released in 2005 (all of which leverage various Web 2.0 best practices), not only is this stuff happening, but lots of people actually care about it (125,000 readers in 7 days on an otherwise obscure technology blog.) Anyway, thanks so much for the massive volume of comments and suggestions. I've now had a little time to take a look at the vast collection of great new Web 2.0 software I wasn't aware yet and I've assembled a new list below. Without further ado, here's a summary of all the additional Web 2.0 software contributed by readers of this blog since last week:  Social Bookmarking/Search/Invitation: Simpy Goovite Furl Spurl Rollyo Squidoo StumbleUpon RawSugar Kopikol SurfTail Content Filtering Techtiki ScoopGo Filangy To Do Lists GooTodo Online Calendars HipCal AirSet zEvents EventSniper Web Site/Blog Analytics: Measure Map Google Analytics Peer Production Content (News/Music/Listings) Shoutwire Millions of Games Rojo Last.fm Pandora WikiCompany Glypho Yazai BlockRocker Wists SpinSpy NowPublic Odeo WebJay 180 Degree News Quimble Riffs ButterFly Bandnews Mash-Ups Ning FlickrMap LivePlasma CoverPop Qube Kayak toEat Aggregators Google Reader SuprGlu PBwiki Attensa fluctu8 NewsMob Blummy Fluxiom Start Pages Google Ig Team Planning, Organization, Coordination, & Project Management Basecamp Planzo Backpack Zimbra ProjectPlace E-Mail and Communication Meebo GMail myemail Tempinbox Citadel Online Storage Avvenu SendSpace eSnips Image Storage, Search, & Sharing Fotolia iStockPhoto Riya Mapping Google Maps Yahoo! Maps MSN Maps Wayfaring Word Processing & Note Taking JotSpot Live Webnote Web 2.0 Parts TinyMCE RSS2PDF Grassroots Web 2.0 Knowmore.org Online Business Software 2ndSite NetWorthIQ ThinkFree CampaignMonitor Web 2.0 Social Communities MySpace Orkut Web 2.0 Command Line YubNub Web 2.0 Humor Web 2.0 Validator Please let me know if there are any broken links or categorization errors. Thanks!
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