Web 2.0 adoption among the Web 0.x crowd
filed under: Trends
Datatel (our administrative database vendor) has always been a big fan of "user-generated content", although it's really user-generated programming on a system that is closed to the outside world, but very very open to savvy programmers with time to spend customizing things.
They've recently encouraged all of us to move from an old-style listserv in the development community to a forum. It's getting going in fits and starts - a lot of people were cranky about moving to the new forum, but it's getting some traction now. It's made me wonder about the adoption rate of Web 2.0 from people who are entrenched in Web 1.0, or even if you can call the pre-WWW/Mosaic/AOL world Web 0.x. (And forums are maybe even barely Web 2.0, more like Web 1.5!) Some folks jump right in, were early adopters in 1980 and are still today. Others adopted then, and are just as difficult to get to change, sometimes even more than folks that maybe never adopted a technology in the first place.
On another, only slightly related Datatel note - Pete has set up a blog about our successes and frustrations in setting up Datatel's new R18. In the interests of cross-pollination, I'm mentioning it here.
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Just a quick nod to Pete on r18 blog. A blog is a really efficient way to publicly document a process.
Posted by: James | April 17, 2007 4:11 PM