Web 2.0 Has Corporate America Spinning 05/06/2006 -Behind the peculiarities, Web 2.0 portends a real sea change on the Internet.
Silicon Valley loves its buzzwords, and there's none more popular today than Web 2.0. Unless you're a diehard techie, though, good luck figuring out what it means. Web 2.0 technologies bear strange names like wikis, blogs, RSS, AJAX, and mashups. And the startups hawking them -- Renkoo, Gahbunga, Ning, Squidoo -- sound like Star Wars characters George Lucas left on the cutting-room floor. Web 2.0 sites are not online places to visit so much as services to get something done - usually with other people...
