Ready or Not – Web 2.0 is Coming to Get You!
OpinionWire Articles
Rob Hailstone - Published 20/12/2007
Web 2.0 is going to catch a lot of IT organisations ill-prepared while they are looking in the wrong direction. Web 2.0 is an umbrella term that encompasses a number of consumer-driven technologies, including collaborative tagging (or ‘folksonomy’), virtual worlds, mashups, wikis, blogs, and more. What they all have in common is the notion of electronic collaboration that is not dependent on mainstream IT. In fact, the uptake of Web 2.0 is showing a lot of the same symptoms as the initial adoption of the…