Dunno if this is what you’re looking for Dale, but this would be my take.

1. ‘web’ is referring to the whole infrastructure and indeed metastructure of the wired world we now take for granted;
2. The numbering system references the common coding of software releases (in the form ‘major.minor’ – for example, Windoze 3.1 would be the first tweak of a major third revision);
3. The proffered description of 1.0 and 2.0 is trying to delineate a sea-change between two cycles of the web’s development, with a clear division marked by the wash-out of all the so-called bubble business founded in the hysterically over-capitalised dot com era;
4. The key characteristic that the proponents of this model are drawing attention to is the tendency of more recent thinking to be much more user-centred and pull~ rather than push~modelled in its operation – for example, you used to be able to just log onto various news sites around the world, but can now set up a thing called an RSS feed that will selectively and automatically download your personal choice of material from loads of sites – perhaps a sports column from one site, a couple of varied news feeds, a columnist whose writing you enjoy, a cartoon strip, a blog entry…

What the difference boils down to is that companies or individuals who want to extract value from the web under the entirely nominal ‘web 2.0’ scenario need to come to terms with the users being far more in control of content and processes than in the earlier days of the web when we were just grateful that computers could talk to each other at all!

Last edited by maverick; 05/07/06 07:43 PM.