What I found to be really confusing is that the web design world points to web 2.0 as using glows, diagonal patterns, rounded corners etcetera, and the web development world defines web 2.0 as using new web technologies that are services-minded (social services??) like flickr, google ads etcetera.

With Time magazine putting ‘the internet user as person of the year’, mainstream media definitely caught up with all the internet craze that surrounds social web services. One thing I found is that the design trends that came with the web 2.0 fad clearly showed an increase of standardisation of visual design, this is certainly no good. (just look at myspace.com: ugly design but looks like standardized design …)

Johan, this is the best def of the web timeline I’ve found, goes out to 2030
http://novaspivack.typepad.com/RadarNetworksTowardsAWebOS.jpg

myspace doesn’t deserve mentioning when speaking of web 2.0 aesthetics…i don’t know what that site’s designers are up to…the look is very very cheap…

So true.

Sorry, didn’t get it… :confused:

Why people keep blabbing the buzzword? Read
this.

misterkip: Spot on comment about Myspace. It’s lack of style rivals 1999-era Geocities

Even though I’m kinda sick of the Web 2.0 design cliches, at least they look nice.

what did josh mean with the cartoon here?

we should not reinvent the wheel: web 3.0 and +++
web 2.0 is nothing without the social
we talk about web 2.0 in our own little niche
web 2.0: the future will be more of the same but with more nuances and more applications

So I guess my cartoon wasn’t as obvious as I thought. It’s basically a play on “2.0″ being applied to everything nowadays. Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Design 2.0, etc…etc. So, in that spirit, I suggest that the 2.0 moniker itself will go 2.0…

I’d say the next big thing is 2.0 2.0beta

Julian…Yes! You got it…or Gamma.

“It’s basically a play on “2.0″ being applied to everything nowadays.” Thanks for the explanation, sorry to say that I didn’t get it at first =/ 2.0 squared I would have gotten To the guys mentioning Myspace’s look, I don’t think it really matters. The site is functional (most of the time), you can dress it up like any other social networking site but they’ll still lack the search flexibilities that Myspace has (IMO).

Versioning is perhaps a developer’s way of tagging even when it is not a development stage in app development. beta, firefox 2.0 ??

Great comic! I like to think that Web 2.0 is really a reaction to Me 2.0. And the Me 2.0s are todays end-users who demand more from their web applications than just transactions. Web 2.0 is hard to define because it is really about designing a wholistic experience for the user. The tools, UI etc are just tools to get to that goal.

And why to not use simply 2?
What for it is necessary to use 2.0?
It can is necessary to break it on 2.1, 2.2

Web 2.0 is so popular nowadays.
And investors see it.

MySpace brought back amatuerish HTML. My initial impression of MySpace was negative.

the next big thing is 2.0 2.0beta