WEB 2.0: IS IT REALLY DIFFERENT?

location based services

Ten years ago (has it really been that long?), we were well into the technologyhype of the World Wide Web. New technologies were going to revolutionizehow we live, how businesses work—just about everything. Enormous amountsof money were invested in all kinds of Web-based ideas, from optical fiber inthe ground to telecommunications equipment to online banking to selling petfood on the Internet using a sock puppet mascot.