The term "web 2.0" makes me want to scream and throw large heavy objects at the person using it, but there's no doubting that it's a useful moniker for what's going on with internet application development right now.
For anyone interested in "doing the web 2.0 thing", Tom Coates' presentation is a must-read.
I particularly liked the slide:
Good URLs are a thing of beauty and a mark of design quality
- Tom Coates, The Future of Web Apps
Which I think also gives us a corollary:
if you can't make your URLs beautiful, you may have a design flaw in your application
- me, Just Now
One of the things I've spent the last ten years arguing for is good (and persistent!) URLs - it's surprising how often this gets forgotten, or subverted in favour of simplicity elsewhere.
Posted by savs at February 15, 2006 12:44 PM