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Renaming Web 2.0. What term to use?

Categories: RuminationsPosted on August 29th, 2006

David doesn’t like the term Web 2.0, nor does Andy (read comments) so what should we call it?

Social Media?
No, as that doesn’t include Rich Internet Applications like AJAX.

Modern Web?
No, as that term won’t be relevant 10 years from now.

Participants Era?
Same issue as Social Media –it doesn’t account for RIA.

I give up, please help –what’s the best term to use?

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3 Responses to “Renaming Web 2.0. What term to use?”

Can’t say I like 2.0 too much as well. The Collaborative Web(real word?)?

As stated by others, the tough thing is that there’s really not something better out there to describe the current state of the internet. Perhaps someone like Seth Godin will give us a cool term…

Posted by Damon Billian on August 29th, 2006 at 7:52 pm

Thanks D

But “Collaborative Web” falls into the same trap as others –it doesn’t account for RIA.

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on August 30th, 2006 at 2:20 am

[...] Many folks think Web 2.0 is the Social Web, and there’s been a lot of discussion about what we are currently living in. It’s a misnomer to say this is the *social web* as I’d argue right now the web enables me to do social transactions but it’s not a social web. I can leave comments, IM, chat etc… but I do this in a solitary manner. There isn’t someone sitting next to me as I’m IMing… in fact I get bothered when someone is looking over my shoulder. [...]

Posted by » Blog Archive » The Social Web on August 31st, 2006 at 10:50 pm