I see a lot of information referencing Web and Enterprise 2.0. For the most part these reference do not discriminate between technology and human factors. I wanted to share my ideas on something that I have noticed in this space. Web 2.0 comprises to facets: the user-driven collaborative component and the technology enabling component. Web 2.0 is actually both a paradigm and technology.
As I was getting ready to write about this I joined a group in Facebook, and in this group I saw a few interesting diagrams. These diagrams led me to JackBe’s blog. There I found that they propose the same thing that I am discussing in this blog entry. On another note I also saw that JackBe and Nexaweb present themselves as Enterprise Web 2.0 Solutions. Is Enterprise Web 2.0 different from Enterprise 2.0? The answer is actually related to the facets that I am describing in this blog entry. Part 2 of this series will cover that, but today I will focus on Web 2.0.
Web 2.0
Mainly focused on social computing, this is a user driven collaboration paradigm. Users assemble and organize themselves and work in partnership with a common goal in mind. Wikis, social networking, blogs are the common tools that enable users to participate in the Web 2.0 user-driven paradigm.
Web 2.0 technology
Technology that makes possible this user-driven paradigm. Many of these technologies are not new but are now being accepted by a wider development audience. Many of these are based on standards such as XML. In these technologies we can mention Mashups, SOA, Web Services, REST based Services, AJAX among others.
In part 2 of this series of I will discuss the Web 2.0 facets in the Enterprise and how I see these enhancing the collaboration and integration possiblities between line of business applications and knowledge workers to create what I call an Enterprise collaboration platform.
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