Is Open Business Web 2.0?
In an article for Wired, Boing Boing’s Xeni Jardin argues that a key component of Web 2.0 is ‘public participation and contributions from the commons.’ This, she says, is not necessarily a good thing. (Jardin is following here the recent invective from Nicholas Carr, who savages Wikipedia for innacuracy and Web 2.0 proponents for ‘ venerating the amateur’ and ‘distrusting the professional.’
The article fails to give any major insights into the management of community-driven services. What interests OB is its acceptance of the commons into the heart of Web 2.0. We thought it was all about Java-driven Web applications. In fact, as Wikipedia states,
‘Web 2.0 is a social phenomenon and refers to an approach of doing web sites; direct, honest and open communication with respect to the market as a conversation; reliance on community and decentralization features; free sharing, remixing and licensing.’
Is OB Web 2.0? That question and more answered in future posts.
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Interesting- that’s not my understanding of Web2.0 at all. And here I just thought it was a new way of managing web applications, with an emphasis on decentralization, like Identity 2.0.
While I believe that open business will be a big part of Capitalism 2.0, which will most likely operate on the web, I think we’ll all have a clearer time understanding it if Web 2.0 is limited to technological developments, and letting the spinoff cultural changes take their course without any statement from technology, which should be neutral in such matters.