·:[ roarweb dot com ]:·
• • • • •

An IT Business Edge e-mail showed Web 2.0 as a KEY ISSUE.

The e-mail list links to articles like Online onslaught: Upstart companies disrupt the market for business software, From Bubble to Breakthrough and

Creating real business value with Web 2.0 by ZDNet’s Dion Hinchcliffe — “I run into a fair number of people who are skeptical about the actual business value of Web 2.0. Sure, they usually agree it’s a terrific new movement in online software that encourages social collaboration, two-way use of the Web, services that are open and repurposable, Web-based applications, and more. But can you build and grow a real business with these ideas?”

Great reading! I really enjoyed the FindTech Insight Keyword search feature. It produced a long list of web 2.0 reference articles. I especially liked the article comment/intro that said:

Many people are still struggling with established phenomena like blogs and wikis, so why spend time on the more esoteric concepts of Web 2.0 like “architectures of participation?” This writer, although rejecting “New-Age-y” visions of Web 2.0, provides some strikingly unpractical reasons why it matters.

roar at roarweb dot com