[mdlug] Transfer Calculator

[Aaron Kulkis]

Jonathan Billings wrote:
> Aaron Kulkis wrote:
>> Jonathan Billings wrote:
>>> While it is a very cool web app, I don't think it counts as Web 2.0,
>> But who cares?
>>
>> Web 2.0 is NOT a standard, it's just a media buzz-word.
> 
> Web 2.0 is a pretty vague term, I agree.  However, Asynchronous 
> Javascript and XML (AJAX) is well-defined, as is the other protocols it 
> is layered on.
> 
>> Buying into the lingo of propagandizers only empowers them,
>> and rarely for your benefit.
> 
> Maybe I'm not the right target audience, however, I haven't found anyone 
> trying to abuse some sort of business relationship with me using the 
> term Web 2.0.  I probably don't read the right trade magazines.  Its 
> like the term, "The Internet Superhighway".  It's not really like a 

Fuzzy terms for fuzzy-headed people, I always say.

> highway, but you keep hearing it used by people who don't know better, 
> or who *should* know better.  (And it is really a series of tubes 
> anyway... :)
> 
> Should you care about the technology referred to with the term "Web 
> 2.0"?  I think so.
>