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Sharepoint and web 2.0

I’ve always wondered what it is about web 2.0 that people in education are so fascinated about. There are lots of articles out there about the history of the Web, of Darcy DiNucci originally coining the term (1999) and then Tim O’Reilly pushing the term in the O’Reilly Web 2.0 Conference in 2004. Google, Bing and Yahoo! them for more information or pop into your local library and dig out books like Where Wizards Stay Up Late (Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyons : Simon & Schuster, 1996 ISBN 0-684-83267-4). You will hear people talking about the read/write web, interactivity, convergence, folksonomy, mashups … the list goes on. Some of this will come across as buzzwords to a heck of a lot of people.

Some will take Web 2.0 as a lot of jargon (Sir Tim Berners-Lee has been quoted as such in fact) ... (Read the rest at Grumbledook Blogs!)