Fresh: pushing the envelope

XIII.6 November + December 2006
Page: 12
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Whither the web?


Authors:
Fred Sampson

To hear some of the breathless prognosticators, Web 2.0 will save the world, or at least the World Wide Web. As you might expect, I have reservations. I recently heard someone who should know better state that Web 2.0 is AJAX (asynchronous Java and XML), and AJAX is Web 2.0. That's not the case, but it might work for those with a limited view of the Web—such as the nongeeks who believe that the Web is the Internet (and the Internet is a "series of tubes"), much as in the old days when newbies believed that AOL was the…




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