Tim O'Reilly recently held a workshop to discuss the emerging patterns of Web 2.0. The goal of the workshop was to build on his paper What is Web 2.0. Notable attendees included Martin Fowler, Bill Scott from Yahoo, Cal Henderson form Flickr, Gregor Hohpe from Google, and Sandy Jen from Meebo. Gregor summarized the workshop on his blog:
In O'Reilly's paper he notes the transition from Web 1.0 to 2.0.
- DoubleClick -> AdSense
- OFoto -> Flickr
- Britannica Online -> Wikipedia
- Do one thing well - meebo.com
Work across devices - backpackit.com's cell phone features
Encourage participation - boring Flickr icons result in customizations
Make public data public - Zillow.com
The group then compiled a set of values, along the lines of the Agile Manifesto:
Gregor concluded with some other 'cool stuff' he saw including learning a new acronym from Martin Fowler: "POX = Plain Old XML (as opposed to SOAP + WS-*)"
- Simplicity over Completeness
- Long tail over Mass Audience
- Share over Protect
- Advertise over Subscribe
- Syndication over Stickiness
- Early Availability over Correctness
- Select by Crowd over Editor
- Honest voice over Corporate Speak
- Participation over Publishing
- Community over Product