Tue 20th Dec, 2005
Web 2.0
The web is being upgraded to Web 2.0. Forbidden's award winning FORscene is Web 2.0 compliant in many ways. For example: FORscene is a service rather than packaged software; it is software above the level of a single device; Forbidden trusts users with many design ideas; and the design and implementation uses lightweight user interfaces and development models. In fact, by running as a Java Applet in a web browser, FORscene is more advanced than many Web 2.0 applications.
What Is Web 2.0
Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software
Figure 1 shows a "meme map" of Web 2.0 that was developed at a brainstorming session during FOO Camp, a conference at O'Reilly Media. It's very much a work in progress, but shows the many ideas that radiate out from the Web 2.0 core.
Core Competencies of Web 2.0 Companies
In exploring the seven principles above, we've highlighted some of the principal features of Web 2.0. Each of the examples we've explored demonstrates one or more of those key principles, but may miss others. Let's close, therefore, by summarizing what we believe to be the core competencies of Web 2.0 companies:
Services, not packaged software, with cost-effective scalability
Control over unique, hard-to-recreate data sources that get richer as more people use them
Trusting users as co-developers
Harnessing collective intelligence
Leveraging the long tail through customer self-service
Software above the level of a single device
Lightweight user interfaces, development models, AND business models
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