Video: Evolution of Web 2.0

Michael Wesch, an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Kansas State University, offers this thought-provoking video about the evolution and meaning of Web 2.0.

Besides the energizing background music, the video also contains this pithy definition:

Web 2.0 is linking people ...
... people sharing, trading, and collaborating ...

Wesch also highlights ideas such as tagging that provide semantic meaning to documents, photos, and videos. Finally, Wesch emphasizes the importance of xml in facilitating the automated exchange of data. The video is worth a few minutes of your time.