In this morning’s post about a newly minted startup -minti, michael arrington says

This is another “walled-garden� solution - meaning the founders did all of the easy web 2.0 stuff - ajax, tagging, comments, etc. - but couldn’t make the hard choices when it came to site architecture and fell back on old web 2.0 ways of doing things.

I hope he meant old web 1.0 ways. Either that, or we are on web3.0 and i don’t know it yet. The main point of his review though, is about websites that do visually cool stuff, yet don’t really “get it” - minti being one of the site that don’t get it.

This brings up an interesting question. What is the minimal set of criteria a company/product must meet to be web 2.0? I guess there is a concrete set in people’s mind , but are there principles that can be articulated? I know a checklist is definitely not web 2.0, how about a manifesto - ala agile manifesto?

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