Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

You Know You're Web 2.0 When...

Thu, 09 Mar 2006 00:15:00 EST

'You're probably here to see how you know that you're Web 2.0,' writes Web 2.0 Journal editor-in-chief Dion Hinchcliffe. 'Here are some ways. And of course, you're always more than welcome to add all the ones I missed at the bottom.'

Sixteen Ways of Thinking in Web 2.0

Sun, 26 Feb 2006 14:45:00 EST

With apologies to Bruce Eckel, I sat down this afternoon and put together a draft list of the first-order elements of Web 2.0 thinking. It's not that I have the hubris to consider this list official in any way but it should be a serviceable starting point for debate, discourse, and reference. I'd also like to give credit to Jeremy Zawodny for his write-up pointing me to Tom Coat's excellent presentation notes from his Future of Web Apps talk which partially inspired this effort. I think both of them have really solid source material. But they still don't quite capture a complete high-level picture of the ingredients, forces, and decisions that have to go into thinking about, using, and building complete Web 2.0 software experiences.

Web 2.0 and the Five Walls of Confusion

Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:30:00 EST

I was reading the coverage of MashupCamp on Tech.Memeorandum today and I came across Adam Greene's coverage of one of the sessions. He was complaining a bit about the cognitive dissonance he was encountering trying to comprehend the data flows in Edgeio, Michael Arrington's prominently covered new Web 2.0 startup. Specifically, his concern was that the average person would almost never be able to sort out what was really happening, even though Edgeio is specifically designed for the 'blog garden' of relatively average users.

Web 2.0 Design: The Ajax Spectrum

Thu, 09 Feb 2006 23:30:00 EST

Yesterday I had the pleasure of talking with key people from two Ajax providers, TIBCO General Interface's Kevin Hakman and Zapatec Ajax Suite's Dror Matalan. Each company has two quite different approaches to designing Ajax-enabled software and it highlighted an increasingly clear divide in the way that people are thinking about online software. In these early days of Web 2.0, the best methods of building applications are still more art than science.

The Web 2.0 Mashup Ecosystem Ramps Up

Sun, 05 Feb 2006 13:00:00 EST

2.63 new mashups a day. That's what John Musser's terrific new Mashup Feed site says is current the creation rate. If that rate flattens out today, which isn't likely, that's over 960 new mashups every year. Mashups, composite web applications partially constructed from the services and content from other web sites, are taking off with an amazing speed. Yet they are a relatively new phenomenon in terms of being this widespread and pervasive. All this even though mashups, like blogs and wikis, were actually possible from the creation date of the first forms-capable browser. So why the sudden widespread interest?

Ten Ways To Take Advantage of Web 2.0

Thu, 02 Feb 2006 09:30:00 EST

One of the questions I get asked fairly frequently is how people can leverage Web 2.0 techniques in their applications and infrastructure today. Now that it's getting more well known, more people seem to be actively interested in making immediate, practical use of Web 2.0 ideas. For example, Microsoft is getting ever increasing buzz about their Mix 06 conference, and ZDNet's David Berlind has been raving about Mashup Camp, an event that will essentially teach folks how to create new remixed applications like ZeroBars out of Web services in literally a handful of minutes.

Trust and Privacy in Web 2.0: Microsoft, Search, and the DOJ

Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:15:00 EST

As I write this I'm sitting here in the front row next to Robert Scoble at Microsoft Search Champs listening to a great talk by Microsoft Fellow Gary Flake about the Internet Singularity and today's announcement of Live Labs. Read the brand new Live Labs manifesto here.

The Web 2.0 Revolution Spawns Offshoots

Sun, 08 Jan 2006 12:30:00 EST

The ideas in the Web 2.0 best practice set continues to capture the imagination of software creators everywhere. Sometimes it seems like you can't turn around without discovering some great new, pervasive, online software being released for the world to use. But the core ideas of Web 2.0 are also spreading and being co-opted at a surprisingly rapid pace into a wider community that's seizing on the value proposition being offered.