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The Web 2.0 emperor is naked. Gavin Clarke reports in The Register on the views of Tim Berners-Lee and Eben Moglen.

Useful amunition in this 30/8/2006 article in the Register.

Five years after the first internet bubble burst, we're now witnessing the backlash against Web 2.0 and a plethora of me-too business plans, marketing pitches and analyst reports exploiting the nebulous phrase.

Tim Berners-Lee, the individual credited with inventing the web and giving so many of us jobs, has become the most prominent individual so-far to point out that the Web 2.0 emperor is naked. Berners-Lee has dismissed Web 2.0 as useless jargon nobody can explain,  and a set of technology that tries to achieve exactly the same thing as "Web 1.0."

For a slightly less sceptical view, see this March 2006 piece by Bill Thompson. For an entirely contrary view see this piece by Dion Hinchcliffe.

Note. Link to Dion Hinchcliffe's article added in response to comment from Mark van Harmelen.

Posted on 09/09/2006 in News and comment |

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