Web 2.0 is…
April 30th, 2006An interesting piece in USA Today via the CSM about Web 2.0. Some quotes to think about:
“The ideas may not be new, but the technical ability to carry them out is. And now, most Americans have a broadband Internet connection. It’s always on and can display videos easily. The cost of storing files such as photos and video online has dropped dramatically.”
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“In one sense, Web 2.0 is a way of thinking about business. “There’s a really powerful fundamental shift in just how people create technologies and companies on the Internet,” Bard says. But it’s also a social movement, providing new ways for people to come together. “Hundreds of millions of us on the Web feel we’re building a new world, and we want to contribute,” Mr. Weinberger says. “Something truly remarkable is going on.”
The idea of Web 2.0 as the community-driven Web reflects something fundamental and enduring about human nature, Werbach says. “People want to collaborate and share information and ideas with their friends and be part of communities,” he says. Web 2.0 helps them do so.”
And libraries, the places where information should not only be collected but created, can be at the center, if we play our cards right. Keep inventing…