I'm interested to know what you think of web 2.0 technologies.

i.e.:

Are they useful (in your opinion)?

Do you use any of the features?

Just hype?

any feedback would be appreciated!

So WTF is "Web 2.0"?

Perhaps you mean this:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/orei...is-web-20.html

If so:
1. I have enormous respect for Tim O'Reilly, the excellent standards he's set for
technical publishing, and the great work he's done for and with the Open
Source community. So I wouldn't dismiss *anything* he says as mere "hype".

2. But it's awfully close ;-)

3. At best, I'd charitably put his characterization of "web 2.0" as
"an interesting basis for discussion".

IMHO .. PSM

what does PSM mean

I checked on google and came up with these, though I'm guessing it isn't intended as any of them

Patient Self-Management, often meaning that a person manages their own anti-coagulant (blood thinner) therapy, using a home blood monitoring device to measure INR
www.chfpatients.com/glossary_2.htm
Persistent Stored Modules, the term used by ISO/ANSI for Stored Procedures.
developer.mimer.com/documentation/html_82/Mimer_SQL_OpenVMS/Intro5.html
prostate specific membrane; a membrane that surrounds the protoplasm (cytoplasm) of prostate cells
ppml.acor.org/GLOSSARY.html
A pricing approach that incorporates input from potential buyers, who read a product description and then plot on a scale the prices they would pay, yielding price estimates high enough to reflect the product's perceived value but low enough to avoid sticker shock.
http://www.mhhe.com/business/marketi...h13/1304.mhtml

Hi, Gogul -

Sorry that at the same time I was criticizing you for being cryptic, I was being cryptic myself.

"IMHO" means "In My Humble Opinion" - I recognize what I'm saying isn't fact, isn't dogma - just happens to be how I feel about it.

"PSM" is the initials in my name (actually, "PMJSM", if you count my middle name and confirmation name. But let's not go there ;-))

And I'm still not sure what you mean by "web 2.0", or what piqued your interest in it. Please elaborate.

TIA ("Thanx in Advance" ;-)) .. PSM

to be honest I saw it on a poll in another forum and was trying to make sense of it.

well, the original question stands

*What* poll in *what* other forum?

What do *you* think it means? And what's *your* opinion on what you know about it?

And what, specifically, piqued your interest enough to make your own post on the topic?

Personally, I'm holding out. I'm waiting for Web 3.257 to come out, then I'll upgrade

Seriously, IIRC Web 2.0 is flash, java, AJAX, Ruby on Rails, and all of that stuff. Some of it's kind of cool, like the back end programming stuff, but I think Flash is pretty much useless(catering too much to those people who are unable to not give in to eye candy)

the poll I was talking about is located here...

http://www.total-web-design.com/index.php

Thanx. That www.total-web-design.com link is probably the first solid fact in this entire thread (outside of the self-administered anti-coagulent link, of course ;-)).

Unfortunately, the article it points to ("The Hype and the Hullabaloo of Web 2.0", by Ellyssa Kroski) is broken. When I googled for Ms. Kroski's original article, I found this:

"Web 2.0? It doesn't exist", Russell Shaw
http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=805

It sounds like Mr. Shaw has probably answered your question ;-)

Your .. PSM

PS:
The complete "The Hype and the Hullabaloo" article referred to on the total-web-design forum is here, if you're curious:
http://infotangle.blogsome.com/2006/...loo-of-web-20/

thanks for that paulsm4

everythings been noted