[tags]web 2.0, Internet, social media [/tags]

You may have heard the term web 2.0 before. Some consider it a buzz word while others see it as a definition of current iteration of the Internet’s evolution. The term is perhaps a bit underestimating the scope of the change in development methodologies when it comes to creating web sites today. The implication of 2.0 references the versioning of software that we are all used to at this point however to paraphrase Eric Rice “If it takes you 10 years to get to version 2.0 of your software you are so fired!”

I also think that this is more than a single low level version change, it is more exponential in it’s scope perhaps more web squared than 2.0. Regardless of the semantics behind the name this is a shift in how to develop, market, interact, work and experience the web. You need to know what all this means and how it effects you, your organization or your company. Thus I am developing a manual for the modern web what ever you want to call it. Through this blog and other writings I plan on helping you understand the changes that are going on today and tomorrow with the Internet.

Some of the topics this blog will cover include

• Ajax
• Blogging
• Folksonomy and Taxonomy
• Internet2
• Mapping and GIS
• Mash-ups
• Planet Lab
• Podcating
• RSS
• Social Networks
• The Metaverse
• Vlogging
• Wiki’s

I will cover the news around the industry to some extent, I will leave the heavy lifting on industry watching to Michael, Marshall and Nick as well as bring as much insider information into the industry that I can to light. I will of course have to abide by the NDA’s that I have signed and respect people when they say off the record. I hope you enjoy reading this blog and I want to thank Chris for letting me write here in the Nexus. Now go Google something else while I work on my next post. :)