“it’s not a bug, it’s a feature!”

What is Web 2.0? Was the question on my mind since I left the first Print/online class. After researching (with one of the most well know Web 2.0 tools, Google) I found out a lot of interesting things about this subject. But I don’t think I am able to answer my initial question yet.
One of the main concepts behind Web 2.0 is simplicity. Everything has to be simple. From the interfaces to the tools used. Internet has to be seen as a pleasure, not as a boring thing. “Content is king”, says Keith Robinson, from Asterisk. And this content is not just text, but music, video…
Every contents have to be easy to get, to download, to carry, on your mobile, mp3 player, to be played in interactive TV. This new way of communicating is getting not only our computers, but also our normal way of communicate. Weblogs are an example of it. In a very easy way, anyone can create a blog (as Blogger announce, “Create a blog in 3 easy steps”) and express themselves to the world. And to those who want to read it.
Web 2.0 is presented as an evolution, not a revolution. As I read here and here, it is all about a question of attitude. The 2.0 attitude is “do it now”. Instead of developing very complex and hard-to-get software, the way is to create a basic and common open source product and put it in the market. Google is the main example of it with the “BETA” designations.

As a global community, we are supposed to work together for the same purpose: developing of useful tools. The idea of “global village” can be also applied to the new ways of communication that are being developed, as the communities like Orkut, Syxt and LinkedIn, among others.
To me, Web 2.0 is a platform, a way of communicating to the world, and to see and be seen by it. The power, now, is real. And it is spread in the network as well. Content is the main concept and that means having the right to express yourself, to have the right attitude, to improve things. To move further…to a Web 3.0.

Who knows?