I just found a very interesting article from .marius about "So Sachen mit Internetz…". It's announced to be the first of a series, and I'm very intrigued.

Reading it, I was reminded of a lecture from Microsoft that I attended about a year ago about Ajax. The lecturer claimed two things: 1. Ajax was invented by Microsoft. 2. Another name for Ajax is Web 2.0. I was very amused about those statements and did my job as an academic consumer (= always give intelligent feedback) by ignoring 1. (Microsoft always claims to have invented everything, and everybody already knows that they've never invented anything) and straighten out 2. by defining Web 2.0 as an evolution of certain aspects:

Web 0.0: Institutions publish, Users consume (e.g. newspaper or flyer producers vs. readers)
Web 1.0: Users publish, Users consume (users generate their own web pages)
Web 2.0: Institutions publish "user provided content"

Web 0.0: Articles are independent from each other (at the most referred to by content)
Web 1.0: Articles are connected by the publishers (hyperlinks and embedded frames)
Web 2.0: Articles are connected by the users (feeds, mashups, personalized sites, trackbacks)

Web 0.0: Articles are distributed and read on paper.
Web 1.0: Articles are printed out or viewed on screens als fully loaded pages
Web 2.0: Articles are released as interactice software for browser operating systems

Web 0.0: Users are anonymous (editorial and sales departments are separated)
Web 1.0: Users are identified and observed by the publishers via IP tracking and cookies
Web 2.0: Users cross-link and watch themselves via "social networking"

Web 0.0: Software is used offline only (DTP layouter)
Web 1.0: Complete contents are published electronically (web server with static caching)
Web 2.0: Dynamic content is generated live (software runs part in browser and part on server)

Ajax on the other hand is just a technology to connect the software parts in browser and server and is otherwise completely orthogonal to the term Web 2.0. Not Ajax changed the internet. The internet evolved (and now uses Ajax as a technology).

That was my feedback.

What .marius claims in his article mentioned above is that many people who share his interests and do lots of stuff with the internet still don't use it's full potential. And I fully agree. Just take a look at my aspect list above: Do you do Web 2.0? Have you even ever seen it?

Well, I'm eagerly awaiting especially the article from .marius announced in the last paragraph:

"Danach geht es darum, wie man es nun mit den ganzen Freunden und Inhalten im Internet aushält, ohne bekloppt zu werden und täglich 8 Stunden online sein zu müssen."

I will stay tuned.