Slashdot has a strong review, which I agree with, followed by lots of funny carping about Ajax.
"There is much to like about this book, but top of the fold for me is the clear and concise explanation of just what exactly Ajax is and why it has the power to make a difference in the web application arena. At a time when more people speak of Ajax than actually understand it, this book has the power to bring forth understanding."
So I asked Dave Winer what he wanted to do next, realizing that I would most likely have to adopt the same thing. That sounds absurd, but for good or bad it is largely true. Dave has adopted a strategy of setting clear goals and then coding, nagging, insulting, and herding everyone else into just doing it the way he wants. In the end people accept his standard or some extended version of it, because his is one that has enough backers to become defacto. That is his strategy: nag until defacto, move on. He knows it works, and increasingly others know it works. I was talking to a big Web 2.0 guy at the SSA conference last week, and he convinced me that OPML was worth using, if only because it got everyone one step closer. Dave has now listed his future obsessions. I'm going to think about them and reply over the coming week.
Web 2.0 is "just like Web 1.0 but with rounded corners and pastel colors."
Man, I'm getting co-opted before I have any opt to co. I knew this Web 2.0 stuff was fun and cool, but it looks like the powers that be get it a little too quickly. The Washington Post now has its own tag cloud connected to an RSS aggregator style feed of their own RSS feeds. They are sitting outside their own site and reading and displaying the content in new ways. That is so Web 2.0.
And in a related story, Amazon now has a product Wiki. So in the past 2 weeks Amazon has started discussion fora, user tagging, and wikis to their product pages. Could they be a little crazed abut collecting user content?
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