Tech at the speed of Warp

The biggest buzzword and none knows what it is. Its been used over and over again in the media, on blogs, everywhere since 2004 when it was crafted. Everyone you ask gives a different explanation. O'Reilly, the creator of the term describes the Web 2.0 at Wikipedia as a

business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform. Chief among those rules is this: Build applications that harness network effects to get better the more people use them. (This is what I've elsewhere called 'harnessing collective intelligence.')

In another words, not even a clue to the larger portion of the population that lack Internet education of what he is talking about.

Now, enters another, more Web 2.0 way of describing the meening of the term. It was created by Michael Wesch, an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University. Which if you look at it makes a perfect sence. It takes a non technical person to explain technical details as tech people always get stuck using technical terms.

Labels: Web 2.0