30 November, 2005 - 9:29am

Jeremy Chone of Oracle, has just posted a thougthful look at Web 2.0. He describes the evolution of the Internet from its creation in the Web 0.x phase of "few to many" to today's inspiring and promising Web 2.0 "reinvigoration" phase. Jeremy suggests however there are limitations of realizing the Web 2.0 promise of true "everybody to everybody" participation. These hurdles to pervasive Internet collaboration are: user identity silos, interoperability mechanisms fragmentation, and limited Internet architecture utlization.

In regards to user identity silos, Jeremy correctly points out "there are still strong incentives for companies to own their user communities on a exclusive basis . These economic incentives, coupled with the technical challenges to providing secure and distributed Identity Management mechanisms, are considerably slowing down the rate of Internet participation growth. The good news is that the Internet community is tackling this issue (referred to as "Identity 2.0") very seriously, and while there are no clear winners yet, there are good contenders (Infocard and SXIP)." We agree! Read the posting for the full story.