Web 2.0 What Does It Mean?

I bet, a lot of you have been asking yourself, what the heck is this Web 2.0. I did too. And honestly speaking, I am beginning to feel Web 2.0 is rather funny in its interpretation. This is one phrase that cannot be satisfied by just a sentence or two of definitions. There were remarks that Web 2.0 can mean different thing to different people on different days. Heck…I even dare to say this Web 2.0 even means different things to same person even on the same day. Don’t believe me? Check this out…

Web 1.0: Joshua Davis on the cover of Art News.
Web 2.0: 37signals on the cover of Forbes.

Web 1.0: Users create the content (Slashdot).
Web 2.0: Users create the content (Flickr).

Web 1.0: Crap sites on Geocities.
Web 2.0: Crap sites on MySpace.

Web 1.0: Writing.
Web 2.0: Rating.

Web 1.0: Karma Points.
Web 2.0: Diggs.

Web 1.0: Cool Site of the Day.
Web 2.0: Technorati.com.

Web 1.0: Tags.
Web 2.0: “Tags.”

Web 1.0: Bookmarking.
Web 2.0: Bookmark sharing.

Web 1.0: Pointless Flash widgets.
Web 2.0: Pointless “Ajax” widgets.

Those are Jefry Zeldman’s definitions of Web 2.0 in just one post in his blog.

Now, what do you think other people say about Web 2.0? Check it out at Zeldman’s blog post Web 2.0 Thinking Game and be amazed….!!

And to continue with the game….here is mine:

Web 1.0 : CJCM and IT
Web 2.0 : Profy.com

What’s yours?