The unbearable rave on it needs some captive definitions, doesn’t it?

this is Tim O’Reilly’s thing

- Javaposse PodCast (please someone help me out with the number of the episode)

cool idea - mostly with no real business plan - that use some AJAX + dynamic html

-Hed

Larger e-mail form == Web 2.0

- Stéphane Lee

…but “Web 2.0” is not a design approach. Rather, it’s a silly reference to contemporary stylistic fad.

- Andy Rutledge

when you google for “depression” and you’ll receive a recommendation from amazon.com: “Ways out of depression”

- (prefers to stay anonymous)

web applications that let you do crap around them and take advantage of organic growth, collaboration, blah, blah…

- Jose Sandoval (he references also to some more serious definitions- as serious as Web 2.0 might be)
…to be continued

Web 2.0 is the building of the Interstate Highway System in the 1950s

- “Architect Corner” (continues with: “Social Computing is everything that resulted next (for better or worse): suburban sprawl, energy dependency, efficient commerce, Americans’ lust for cheap and easy travel.”)

Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform.

- Tim O’Reily