'You're probably here to see how you know that you're Web 2.0,' writes Web 2.0 Journal editor-in-chief Dion Hinchcliffe. 'Here are some ways. And of course, you're always more than welcome to add all the ones I missed at the bottom.'

With apologies to Bruce Eckel, I sat down this afternoon and put together a draft list of the first-order elements of Web 2.0 thinking. It's not that I have the hubris to consider this list official in any way but it should be a serviceable starting point for debate, discourse, and ref...

I was reading the coverage of MashupCamp on Tech.Memeorandum today and I came across Adam Greene's coverage of one of the sessions. He was complaining a bit about the cognitive dissonance he was encountering trying to comprehend the data flows in Edgeio, Michael Arrington's prominently...

Yesterday I had the pleasure of talking with key people from two Ajax providers, TIBCO General Interface's Kevin Hakman and Zapatec Ajax Suite's Dror Matalan. Each company has two quite different approaches to designing Ajax-enabled software and it highlighted an increasingly clear div...

2.63 new mashups a day. That's what John Musser's terrific new Mashup Feed site says is current the creation rate. If that rate flattens out today, which isn't likely, that's over 960 new mashups every year. Mashups, composite web applications partially constructed from the services an...

One of the questions I get asked fairly frequently is how people can leverage Web 2.0 techniques in their applications and infrastructure today. Now that it's getting more well known, more people seem to be actively interested in making immediate, practical use of Web 2.0 ideas. For ex...

As I write this I'm sitting here in the front row next to Robert Scoble at Microsoft Search Champs listening to a great talk by Microsoft Fellow Gary Flake about the Internet Singularity and today's announcement of Live Labs. Read the brand new Live Labs manifesto here.

The ideas in the Web 2.0 best practice set continues to capture the imagination of software creators everywhere. Sometimes it seems like you can't turn around without discovering some great new, pervasive, online software being released for the world to use. But the core ideas of Web 2...