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Noticeable since the Web 2.0 Conference last week is the usual plethora of overly enthusiastic blog entries. Web 2.0 is going to change the world, everything is going to be AJAX, etc. Thankfully however, there are the faint murmuring of skepticism showing up here and there. Now most of the skepticism is coming from venture [...]

There is a great article on XML.com (OReillynet.com) by Dan Zambonini on how he believes the web 2.0 meme is killing (or maybe we should say aborting since it never really took off) the semantic web (SW).
The problem with SW is of course the same as the problem with good web design using XHTML and [...]

Now I can often go on about how AJAX is going to be misused, slow and generally a bad thing. Of course then google will go and release yet another AJAX application that just plain and simply rocks. They time and time again manage to create applications that are fast, superbly functional and extremely simple [...]

Seems every web design site you look at these days is going on and on about web 2.0 and AJAX. The two come together so often in blogs you could be excused for thinking you can’t have one without the other. This is bad, in case you didn’t know!
Web 2.0, the term O’Reilly came up [...]

An interesting web 2.0 meme map I saw at readwriteweb.com
With all the web 2.0 hype at the moment, something that visually defines what to aim for is a good idea. The stuff, that the likes of google popularised, has the potential to really replace the desktop application; yet it also has the potential to be [...]