Naturally, my comment is that everyone forgets about integrating to the mobile… Link: Om Malik’s Broadband Blog � What is Web 2.0… take two. This past Wednesday I posted this definition of Web 2.0. …“a collection of technologies – be

There has been a bit of a frenzy in the last two days about the definition of Web2.0 (see links below). When I was assembling our new corporate site for 83 Degrees, I hid my interpretation in a tooltip.
Simply put, “what is old is new again!&#…

Great summary. The discussion and examples ignore the real changes sweeping East Asia. The last time I checked it is the WORLD Wide Web. East Asia is paving the way as far the next generation Internet — while North America is stuck at 1-3 megabits, we are at 10 megabits.

Here is a recent article on Web 4.0 in South Korea:

http://www.businessweek.com/@@@l0wPIUQ@6DlRwEA/magazine/content/05_39/b3952405.htm

One cannot underestimate the potential of multi-player games in creating persistent virtual environments. Warcraft has hundreds of thousands of FANATIC users in South Korea alone:

http://www.businessweek.com/@@IPq474UQ*aDlRwEA/magazine/content/05_38/b3951085.htm

We in the east think that our edge in bandwidth will allow us to not look too much to the West this time around. We may not be doing much in terms of conceptualizing the framework we are in, but things are moving so fast out here, we defer to you bandwidth-starved folks in the West on that point.
As William Gibson aptly said, “The future is here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.”

Perhaps another core competency is the ability to function and build communities in a multi-lingual WWW.

The buzz has been increasing over the past few days on what is Web 2.0, and what it is not. Om sort of initiated the movement by blogging his answer to a question asked during a dinner conversation. My own response (at the same dinner) revolved 3 main …

I have two perspectives on this. Firstly, all languages are written using an English language instruction set. If technology is going to become truly globally inclusive, it appears to me that this has to change. If we still cannot sort out the difficulties native Arabic speakers have in using a spreadsheet with an English function set and a left to right morphology, how can we move forward in a global sense.

Secondly, I wonder if it is not also important to look beyond today’s context free languages towards a context sensitive language which will permit the processing of far greater levels of complexity.

Wouldn’t the creation of a context sensitive and multi-lingual langauge really allow the potential of Web 2.0 to come true?

I cant help feeling that instead of relying on code that has its architecture based upon 1960′s technology (as all of today’s codes do), it would be more effective to consider rebuilding the ‘lego blocks’ ?