In the beginning, there was html (and a search engine), then God came and said: "Let form from content split" and css+xml+xsl+xhtml were created and He saw that it was good. Then God said "Let people share and broacast images, music, video, text and ideas" and
WikiPedia,
Flickr,
YouTube,
Odeo,
Blogs and
del.icio.us were created along with
rss feeds, and He saw that people were doing good things and He saw that this was good. People from all over the world were now talking together, forming a vast network of knowledge, ideas, creativity and communication. Then God came and said "Let there be no copyright, for all the web is what We are, in all of Us" and
Creative Commons licensing was created and He saw that this was good.
But then He sit back for a moment and pondered on what He did ... "Wait a minute, what about the
Babel thing?"
YouTube - Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us:
This clip is a bit of a brainwash, but whoever did this (some university professor) really made the link between the technology, the ideas and the people behind web 2.0. Effective propaganda, very good indeed.
I just want to stress out some concepts here: "separate form and content" is
xml(+
css+
xsl+
xhtml) technology (all declared at the
W3C). "sharing news and ideas" is
RSS/Atom technology. "You/We will organize all this data" is
tagging and
geo-tagging (
Flickr,
YouTube,
del.icio.us,
maps). "Rethink copyright" is true sharing (
Creative Commons).
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