Comments on: Seth is starting to get it http://citizenagency.com/blog/2006/09/11/seth-is-starting-to-get-it/ Collaborating towards ecstasy Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:45:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Alex Piner http://citizenagency.com/blog/2006/09/11/seth-is-starting-to-get-it/#comment-186 Alex Piner Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:04:05 +0000 http://citizenagency.com/blog/2006/09/11/seth-is-starting-to-get-it/#comment-186 Tim, It was very nice to read your words. The phrase "Web 2.0" is somewhat disturbing, as we are really in "Web 0.2", as Tim Berners-Lee originally designed the Web. All the features of user interaction/generated content (and much more) has been planned since the beginning, so while a "paradigm shift" may have occured in usage of/on the Web, we are still far from WEB 1.0. This "versioning" of The Web must stop! , as it distorts the Semantic Web Roadmap. I had the false assumption the "Web 2.0" meme was built around an expensive conference. After reading your post, I now realize that were it not for O'Reilly being the largest source of documentation for technical information on the Web, it may not have grown to the point it is today. Kudorank points to you. Now please make Foo camp open. Tim, It was very nice to read your words.

The phrase “Web 2.0″ is somewhat disturbing, as we are really in “Web 0.2″, as Tim Berners-Lee originally designed the Web. All the features of user interaction/generated content (and much more) has been planned since the beginning, so while a “paradigm shift” may have occured in usage of/on the Web, we are still far from WEB 1.0.

This “versioning” of The Web must stop! , as it distorts the Semantic Web Roadmap.

I had the false assumption the “Web 2.0″ meme was built around an expensive conference.

After reading your post, I now realize that were it not for O’Reilly being the largest source of documentation for technical information on the Web, it may not have grown to the point it is today. Kudorank points to you.

Now please make Foo camp open.

]]> By: Tim O'Reilly http://citizenagency.com/blog/2006/09/11/seth-is-starting-to-get-it/#comment-143 Tim O'Reilly Tue, 12 Sep 2006 06:23:16 +0000 http://citizenagency.com/blog/2006/09/11/seth-is-starting-to-get-it/#comment-143 I totally agree with this observation. My original business plan for O'Reilly was just "interesting work for interesting people," and even after we figured out a business that was interesting and scalable, we never made money a priority (at least not till the dot com bust, which hit our customers, and thus our business, hard). I've always said that money is like gas in the tank -- you need it to get where you're going, but no one thinks that a road trip is a tour of gas stations. We've always had as a company goal to create more value than we capture. So good luck to you in the wonderful goals you set for yourselves here. I totally agree with this observation. My original business plan for O’Reilly was just “interesting work for interesting people,” and even after we figured out a business that was interesting and scalable, we never made money a priority (at least not till the dot com bust, which hit our customers, and thus our business, hard). I’ve always said that money is like gas in the tank — you need it to get where you’re going, but no one thinks that a road trip is a tour of gas stations. We’ve always had as a company goal to create more value than we capture.

So good luck to you in the wonderful goals you set for yourselves here.

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