here are 12 million links than that -there are already
in Google that answer the suggestions to replace the "old
query "Web 2.0". words" with new ones, like Ian
Hughes' suggestion to replace
The phenomenon of Web 2.0 is so "Web 2" with "Fifth Wave"
energetic that a whole new
language is developing in order "We have had mainframes,
to express it. minicomputers, pcs, and
client-server/Internet. Nominally
Almost every day I learn a new these could be called waves 1 to
word: 4. The fifth wave is all the
First I learned the word 'Web enabling technologies that have
2.0'. become pervasive.
Then I learned about Broadband,always on connectivity,
'microcontent' and 'remix'. open standards, easy to use
And today I learned about tools, scripting, J2EE etc. When
'mashup'. all these tools are put in the
hands of of people with ideas and
"A 'mashup' is a web-based allows them to implement those
application built through ideas we have the fifth wave".
(creative) combination of data
from multiple sources. Often, but My contribution to this new
by no means always, this data is glossary is the word "Webish"
retrieved by using a vendor's which is the name I suggest for
API". this new language (like English
or Danish)...
The pace of learning these new
words is so high that there are To sum it all up: the description
already many glossaries dedicated of QTSaver(the software I'm
to this new language, and more developing these days) in webish
is: multiple sources using a vendor's
API.
A Web 2.0 tool that remixes or
mashes up microcontents from
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Script writer, blogger and Inventor living in Jerusalem' Israel.
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