OK, with all of the hype we still have to ask ourselves if the labeling of Web 2.0 is more of a problem than the concept itself?

Surely they jest. Jeffrey Zeldman has an interesting and widely covered new article on Web 2.0 which is almost exactly as content free as he claims the Web 2.0 hypesters are. That’s not to say that he doesn’t make a few factually correct statements about AJAX and even makes a passing mention of social software. But he’s missing many of the big pieces of Web 2.0 since he’s apparently looking at it through the somewhat myopic tunnel vision of a web page designer.

Yes, Jeffrey understands the Web from the front-end, but apparently not the whole thing, and so misses some important parts. In the end, Jeffrey doesn’t like Web 2.0 because 1) he apparently didn’t bother to really understand it and 2) he really dislikes any annoying people that have picked up on the name. [Read the rest]