Comments on: Starting a Position http://www.participationliteracy.com/2006/05/18/starting-a-position/ A Research 2.0 Project about Participation in Web 2.0 Environments Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:13:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: The Web as Platform at Participation Literacy http://www.participationliteracy.com/2006/05/18/starting-a-position/#comment-4 Thu, 18 May 2006 09:35:23 +0000 http://www.participationliteracy.com/2006/05/18/starting-a-position/#comment-4 [...] O’Reilly’s description of the content (the last figure in Starting a Position) captures some qualities in Web 2.0. His analysis follows loose thoughts I had before hearing about the concept. My own entrance to the Web 2.0 concept is via concepts such as collaborative filtering, social navigation and folksonomy. I recognized that many of the new applications and services I liked had several things in common, such as tagging abilities, design contents in the form of tag clouds, RSS, and they seemed to work together quite well. The concept works since it functions as a magnet for creativity when it comes to Web applications and services. There is by no means consensus about the meaning of Web 2.0, yet most people involved tend to point to the same concepts, phenomena and services when they use the expression Web 2.0. [...] […] O’Reilly’s description of the content (the last figure in Starting a Position) captures some qualities in Web 2.0. His analysis follows loose thoughts I had before hearing about the concept. My own entrance to the Web 2.0 concept is via concepts such as collaborative filtering, social navigation and folksonomy. I recognized that many of the new applications and services I liked had several things in common, such as tagging abilities, design contents in the form of tag clouds, RSS, and they seemed to work together quite well. The concept works since it functions as a magnet for creativity when it comes to Web applications and services. There is by no means consensus about the meaning of Web 2.0, yet most people involved tend to point to the same concepts, phenomena and services when they use the expression Web 2.0. […]

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