Web 2.0 definition updated and Enterprise 2.0 emerges

The annual Web 2.0 Conference starts this Tuesday and with it comes an important update of the vision of the next generation of networked applications. Thus, the major event during the leadup to the conference is not the pending renaming of the conference to the Web 2.0 Summit, but the issuing of the most complete articulation yet of what exactly Web 2.0 is, something which the industry has frequently struggled with.

Written primarily by John Musser (of the terrific Programmable Web site) along with support from Tim O'Reilly and the O'Reilly Radar Team, the new 100 page report — titled Web 2.0 Principles and Best Practices — was published late last week and is available immediately. As most readers here know, O'Reilly Media originally introduced the term in 2004 and followed it up in 2005 with a widely read seminal five page essay that attempted to describe the successful design patterns and business models emerging on the Web today. This new report, probably not given as much fanfare as the original essay due to it being a commercial report, is significant improvement on the articulation of Web 2.0 in a number of ways.
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