Read/WriteWeb will be focusing on more media-related web technology in 2006. Enough Web 2.0.
]]>As you point out, the value is real. And building. Every day.
"Web 2.0" has been a poor way of encapsulating a renaissance.
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]]>Denis, yes I will create new categories. I won't move old content into new categories however, but I will stop using them.
]]>There is real value in the current Web, but the term 'Web 2.0' itself has become a liability.
]]>I am currently heading up a project to build an enterprise blogging solution at one of the big-4 audit/consulting firms. There are over 130,000 people in my firm.
Internal enterprise blogs, enterprise wikis and technology like microformats are going to radically change the way the people work.
Maybe Microsoft is going to dominate this space with Office Live. Maybe the rest of the industry (the former Web 2.0 crew) is going to beat them to the punch.
My site, www.innovationcreators.com, makes the simple business argument that in today's hyper competitive environment, companies must pursue a strategy of constant innovation. If you are running a bank or a big manufacturing company, the idea of constant innovation is probably something fairly new to you. Compare the number of innovations that come out of Apple (iPod, iMac) to say the number that come out of Dell. Or compare the new pill bottles at Target to nothing new at the other drug stores. BTW, good marketing, great design and packaging are innovations, just as much as fancy new electronic or software wizardry.
If are the CEO of a big company and you want to pursue a strategy of constant innovation, you need to copy good innovators, like Google. Google enlists every engineer in the cause of innovating. I bet that Dell's engineers do not spend 20% of their time on their own projects.
Recently, Business 2.0 asked Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt if Google has some kind of grand strategic plan for the new products it creates?
Dr. Schmidt replied "Virtually everything new seems to come from the 20 percent of their time engineers here are expected to spend on side projects. They certainly don’t come out of the management team."
Google uses internal enterprise blogs and wikis to help their people to efficiently communicate.
A unified, easy to use system of enterprise blogs and wikis are the beginnings of what will become Web Office technology. Web Office will not look like MS Office. For one thing, there will be no Word Processors.
For a fast definition, Web Office is a set tools that enable Knowledge Workers to consume, create and efficiently share content, structured data and analysis.
I can tell you that I know what my firm wants and needs from Web Office. My article Top 15 Requirements for Web Office is a beginning, though I think I need to add microforamts to the list. I can also tell you that my main role is working as a consultant who deals with top financial institutions, including many of the top US banks and hedge funds. I can see that our clients want and need the same thing we do.
Finally, I can tell you that no vendor that I have seen actually has anything like the complete package of Web Office solutions we want and need to turn our knowledge workers into innovation creators.
Web 2.0 may be dead, but Web Office has only just begun.
]]>I think Web 2.0 is a good candidate for this. It communicate the idea of the "second coming" of the web. It's also easy to understand.
Maybe instead of throwing out Web 2.0 altogether, we should all just stop arguing about what exactly makes something Web 2.0 or not and start talking more about the innovation happening on the web and why it will change the way we work in the coming years.
I wrote a blog post about this also. See it at:
]]>1: It does serve a useful purpose. Everytime I say Web2 to someone they go "what's that?" and I get to tell them about blogging, rss, ajax, and the new themes on the web.
2: If we stop using an umbrella term, a lot of these concepts will become inaccessible to the general public.
3: If we stop using web2, we'll have some other bloody buzzword move in after about 3 months, and it'l be like "Weberation X" or "The Infraweb" or something even worse like that - web2 isn't bad let's keep it!
]]>And what does "workaholic" have to do with the root work for "alcohol"?
]]>And what does "workaholic" have to do with the root word for "alcohol"?
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