Notes on Article "Web 2.0 - the power behind the hype"

As part of my tasks for the "things", I read the article "Web 2.0 - The Power Behind the Hype", by Jared M. Spool.
For someone who is a relative novice with all of this, it was a useful article, since it described some of the new applications such as APIs, RSS, Folksonomies and Social Networking, talked about the tech. developments that made these things possible and what the benefits are. I had not heard at all about APIs, where users can overlay their own information on sites such as Google Maps, so found this very interesting.
Of course the author noted that all of this personalization of the Web could lead to chaos since there is no standardization, but that if this is worked through, the benefits over time could be even greater than we think.

This article was one of the ones listed on the Learning 2.0 blog, so I recommend it!