Web 2.0?

What is Web 2.0? I've read/scanned a number of blog entries and articles on this topic, but still haven't seen a good description of Web 2.0!

Web 2.0 in three words says it's just the read-write web. The funny thing about this is that was the original intent and the original software on NeXT machines made this quite easy. Tim Berners-Lee's new blog points to this fact---see The WorldWideWeb browser for details.

Dave Winer (one of my favorite bloggers) wrote about TheTwoWayWeb about four and a half years ago. He probably won't get credit for this either, just as he has been removed from Podcast history (see Growing pains for Wikipedia for some background on the Podcast invention scandal), which is another blog entry itself....

So, from now on I'm going to think of Web 2.0 as The Web as it was intended.

Update December 19, 2005
Web 2.0? It doesn't exist is a recent piece on this issue. I saw this the other day, but didn't have time to post this, but noticed that Dave Winer points to it. I like Dave's summary:

He's exactly right, and what he says is kind of obvious.

Web 2.0 is a way for certain marketing people to claim they invented stuff that they didn't invent, without actually claiming they invented it. It's the kind of double-talk marketing guys love.

In a sense people are right when they say it's another bubble. It's dishonest like the bubble was. Yet the technologies they're hyping are honest.