Is YOUR company in tune with Web 2.0??

BitTorrent, AdSense, wikis, tagging, syndication...What??!?!

In all honesty, this was a VERY difficult article to read (and listen), but I'm amazed nontheless. The internet has gone a long way since the bust of 2001.

I think the article summarized well the core competencies of Web 2.0 company.

- Services, not packaged software, with cost-effective scalability
- Control over unique, hard-to-recreate data sources that get richer as more people use them
- Trusting users as co-developers
- Harnessing collective intelligence
- Leveraging the long tail through customer self-service
- Software above the level of a single device
- Lightweight user interfaces, development models, AND business models

Web 2.0 developed and evolved web based communities, social networking sites, wikis, blogs, and tagging. It is a revolution in the technology industry that moves things to the internet instead of databases and software.

Is my company Web 2.0? Since we are a global company, we still use the old Lotus and SAP. We just implemented Salesforce.com a few months ago (yeah!). Our internet at work uses the same server as headquarters, i'm not sure how that works, therefore we have super slow internet. Since we are an internet shopping company, we need the latest and greatest to keep up.

In terms of my work problem, Web 2.0 can help us by using web database programs to communicate to the company and having services with cost-effective scalability.

Since this article was written in 2005, is it safe to say Web 3.0 will be coming soon?