The vaunted “Web 2.0” bunch of internet innovations includes surprisingly little that is new on a technical front, says consultant Stefan Korn. Most of it can be achieved in standard HTML. The new style represents, rather, an attitudinal change, towards a more two-way approach to the web.
In some ways, he says, it marks a return to earlier internet values, where the user was typically a creator and participant, not a mere consumer of packaged “content”.
