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As if we didn’t have enough buzz words — Look out for AJAX 2.0. Check it out here. I don’t get why everything new on the web is to be considered a new version. Apparently most people have forgotten how software versioning works. You can’t take something that appears to be new or which does something different and say this is the almighty new version and slap it with a new monaker. Take the Web 2.0 for instance. Just because people are finally starting to use standards and ideas thought of five or ten years ago does not mean there’s a new web. Just because Tim Berners-Lee initial vision of the web is coming true does not mean there is a new version of the web.

There’s two things I want in 2006 — (1) drop web2.0 (and all other silly versioning tactics) until there’s a fundamental change in that constitutes a new version (2) Stop using the term beta inappropriately. Betas are not mass-adopted test environments but previews and demonstrations to a select sample of intended user base.

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