http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/0.../what-is-web-20.html

It's clear that 1.0 refers to the original dotcom era while 2.0 refers to its collapse, but can anyone provide better defs

Thanks all

Did you read the article you linked to, Dale? It pretty much explains what the differnces between Web 1.0 and 2.0 are.

1. The web as platform. (Not bloated desktop apps, but web services.)

2. Harnassing collective intelligence. (Things like wikis, blogs, online communities.)

3. Data is the next Intel inside. (In other words, content is king; always has been, always will be.)

4. End of the software release cycle. ((Web) Services, rather than products.)

5. Lightweight programming models. (Things like RSS, web services / SOAP, REST vs SOA, and most recently AJAX.)

I wonder when the use of decimal places took the place of alphanumerics in both computerese and in normal publishing. Somewhere around here I have a book published in the 1940s that heads chapters as 1-2-3-4, but cites footnotes as 1.1, 1.2, 1.3... Thus the method isn't new, yet seems new.

Here's a bit of fun: http://www.web20generator.com/

More about Web 2.0: http://www.vipedio.com/roman/blog/20culture_full.html

zm: Thank you for that clarification, but the trouble is, to me the entire article is indecipherable jargon and so I had hoped to elicit a more compact definition

Myself, I'm not yet with 2.0

Edited to cite the thread below, discussing the latter term in much detail but without defining it

http://www.paulgraham.com/web20.html

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to me the entire article is indecipherable jargon and so I had hoped to elicit a more compact definition

I don't think you are among its intended audience, Dale. Tim O'Reilly is a techie publisher. Paul Graham. is writing for a programming crowd, usually.

As for the numbering scheme. The one used in software is, usually, major releases (new functionality), whole numbers, and minor releases (bug fixes), digits to the right of the decimal point.