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"Web as Platform" Has Been Replaced By “Cloud Computing“

Web 2.0 Completes Five Years
By Udayan Banerjee
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September 23, 2009 03:00 AM EDT
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The first Web 2.0 conference was held October 5-7, 2004 at the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco.
A lot has happened in the last five years like the theme “Web as Platform” as a terminology is dead and has been replaced by “Cloud Computing“.

In this year’s hype cycle for emerging technologies, Gartner has positioned Web 2.0 under “Climbing the Slope of Enlightenment” and expects it to go main stream in less than 2 years.

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Udayan Banerjee is CTO at NIIT Technologies Ltd, an IT industry veteran with more than 30 years' experience. He blogs at http://setandbma.wordpress.com.
The blog focuses on emerging technologies like cloud computing, mobile computing, social media aka web 2.0 etc. It also contains stuff about agile methodology and trends in architecture. It is a world view seen through the lens of a software service provider based out of Bangalore and serving clients across the world. The focus is mostly on...

  • Keep the hype out and project a realistic picture
  • Uncover trends not very apparent
  • Draw conclusion from real life experience
  • Point out fallacy & discrepancy when I see them
  • Talk about trends which I find interesting
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