Jeremy Caney

I've never been fond of the term "Web 2.0" - in part because it's often used to imply a new suite of technologies even though it's largely founded on concepts that have been well-established (but not widely-utilized) for over a decade. For example, XMLHttpRequest - the backbone of the AJAX style of development - first shipped with Internet Explorer 5.0 in 1999. The term thus struck me as another example of the popular trend in software of rebranding old technologies as the "next big thing".

I have mixed views on tagging. On one hand, I agree that most information architecture forces the user to channel the content owner in order to find content; the inability to (easily) cross-reference data into multiple categories in most systems compounds this problem. At the same time, tagging doesn't innately solve this. With this in mind, Ignia has implented a different strategy for tagging that begins to address some of these limitations.