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To: axial who wrote (17621)	11/3/2006 10:50:30 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

Hi Jim, Others may differ, but from my perception Web 2.0 is an environment fostered by new collaborative tools and user-generated platforms based on software that support the likes of Wikis, blogs, vlogs, podcasting, Web services and other "publishing" and other capabilities geared towards collaboration. Any given 2.0 application is no more precise than the quality and compatibility of the software programmed into it. The answer to whether it is based on known realities, and if it works up, down and sideways can only be approximated through testing and actual use. After an appropriate degree of testing, one can only remove some, but not all, of the uncertainties you've inquired about. We need only look to Microsoft for examples of what prolonged testing and debugging entails before they get it straight, and then decide to discontinue manufacture when they finally get it right ;) Fortunately, however, Web 2.0 wares tend to be loosely coupled "components" that work very near independently of one another and of larger systems, as opposed to being embedded tightly into a more rigid structure. So, if one piece of a 2.0 platform happens to be buggy, it doesn't necessarily impact anything beyond the other components it's designed to touch and work with. Like many other things that have been developed to work on the WWW, testing and perfecting software is a major aspect of developing 2.0 platforms, too, and as it has always been a part of the Internet ethos, if it is broken or buggy it sooner or later gets fixed. Please advise if I've addressed your questions adequately, since I'm not very clear if I actually understood all of your questions, and if not, then kindly rephrase. FAC

To: axial who wrote (17621)	11/3/2006 12:46:57 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 46821

Jim, you might find this refreshing and more in line with your earlier question, to some degree, despite it being "Enterprise 2.0," vs "Web 2.0". The one I really get a kick out of is Telco 2.0. That's pretty funny, don't you think? What's next? Fisherman 2.0? Coal Miner 2.0? I know, someone out there is already searching those terms as I continue editing this silly thing. What did you find? --- Does Enterprise 2.0 Threaten To Dumb Down Businesses? November 2006 \| Thomas Davenport \| Optimize Magazine Yes: There's potential for organizational intelligence to decline. First, let me register my distaste for the terminology "Enterprise 2.0." To suggest that blogs, wikis, and social tagging are responsible for an entirely new generation of enterprises—the first new release of enterprises in recorded history—is a bit hyperbolic, to say the least. Second, businesses full of seemingly intelligent individuals already make lots of dumb decisions—even without benefit of any new technology. So dumbing down applies to an already-low standard. I haven't yet lost sleep over the fear that these new technologies will rot the brains of the organizations that adopt them. However, I do believe that there's some potential for organizational intelligence to decline with the adoption of highly participative technologies. What has happened with other democratic media? Take talk radio, for example—please take it! Remember CB radio, good buddy? Think about those paragons of adolescent social networking, MySpace, Facebook, and others of their ilk. Like television, they've all become a vast wasteland that makes Geraldo Rivera look profound. Have these media increased the IQs of those who have partaken of them? Hardly. Continued at: optimizemag.com ------