Who Invented Web 2.0?
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I’ll bet you don’t know, huh? You’re probably really into the Web 2.o stuff and don’t even know who coined the word.
Well, I do.
It is reported to have been Tim O’Reilly of O’Reilly Media, Inc. Read the article here: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html
So, now you know.
But how cool is it to be part of that? I mean, we aren’t going to let search tell us what’s good and what’s bad. We’re going to decide for ourselves. Maybe that’s how the Internet should always have been–a big popularity contest.
But then again, what about all those valuable sites that might not be at the top of the food chain? I have a really great writing site, but it gets little traffic. Writers, especially children’s writers, would love it. But nobody knows about it because I don’t push it like I do my other websites. I haven’t updated it in a while, but it does have some dynamic content that changes all the time. I mean, it’s a good site.
Who knows? Nobody. Who would know if social bookmarking took over Google? Maybe a bunch of writers, but probably not. That site would be no better or worse off than it is right now. There are lots of sites like that, so… in the grand scheme of things, you probably have a better chance of your site being ranked by Google.
So, just what is the big deal about Web 2.0?
Does it bring tons of traffic? Yes, indeed, it brings some. It especially brings other bloggers, which is cool. I think bloggers are pretty cool people.
But you know what’s the best thing about Web 2.0?
It’s just fun.
You get to meet people who you’d never have met otherwise. I have like 120 friends on MySpace, but I have no idea who most of them are. I’ve made a couple of good friends who write to me often, and that’s cool. I enjoy hearing from them. So, be my friend and sign up for my newsletter there. You’ll love it.
And then, there’s FaceBook. I was on Friendsters when it first opened way back around 2001 or 2002, so I’ve been ahead of the curve here. LOL I figured I didn’t need FaceBook because I already had MySpace. Wrong. I was dragged into it by Tellman, and you know, it’s a lot of fun. (I just spent twenty minutes there rating movies and answering a quiz about the 1950’s version of Treasure Island on which I scored dismally.) I have some really cool friends there and I was able to put my books on my site and even write reviews of them. (Of course, they were all glowing reviews. LOL Naw. I just told a little about the person in the book.)
But I can throw sheep at people, buy people drinks or just super poke them. It’s totally silly and I love it.
If you’re on FaceBook, come and be my friend. I’ll definitely send a Starbucks’ your way. (That’s a FaceBook Starbucks’.) I wish it were that easy to get Starbucks. Really, I’m a frappacino junkie. I had to go to SA (Starbucks Anonymous) for a while because I gained 3 frickin’ pounds from Starbucks’ mocha frappacinos, double blended.
That’s the LAST thing I need.
Anyway, if you haven’t checked out FaceBook, have some fun online. If you work as hard as I do, you definitely deserve it. 
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