[img src="http://37signals.com/images/37slogo.gif" caption="" credit="" alt=""]Jason over at the 37Signals blog has posted on the Top 10 Things That Aren't Web 2.0, among them Ajax and RSS:
"There’s a lot of smart people asking ‘What is Web 2.0?’.
I’ll tell you what it isn’t.
1. Ajax, RSS, etc
2. Feature lists
3. VC funding
4. Hiring, hiring, and more hiring
5. “Stealth mode”
6. Public betas
7. “Proprietary” formats
8. “Revolutionary” anything
9. Google, Yahoo, or Microsoft
10. Boards of directors
11. Selfishness
I couldn’t help myself, I had to go up to 11. I would have added “More, more, more” as #12, but I figured it would have been a bit contradictory."
The comments are getting very heated and seem highly critical of the Web 2.0 meme, claiming that it's merely a buzzword. Personally, I think labels are very useful, even if they're not concise. And there's definitely some irony in a Web 2.0 company claiming that Web 2.0 is a useless meme. Just look at this quote from the 37Signals homepage (it has just been removed, after a commenter pointed it out):