left a comment on your blog, Rob<br><br>btw web2.0 was initially conceived as an O'Reilly marketting slogan - they applied for a trademark and told a non profit organisation they couldn't use the term at their conference<br>
<a href="http://www.tomrafteryit.net/oreilly-trademarks-web-20-and-sets-lawyers-on-itcork/">http://www.tomrafteryit.net/oreilly-trademarks-web-20-and-sets-lawyers-on-itcork/</a><br><br>-- <br>Bill Kerr<br><a href="http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/">http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/</a><br>
<br>On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Costello, Rob R <<a href="mailto:Costello.Rob.R@edumail.vic.gov.au">Costello.Rob.R@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Software versions are a clever way to make you feel that
your current set up is out of date </span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Word 6 must be hopeless, given word 7,8,9 are out etc</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Microsoft took it to a new levels by naming the product
after the date (office 98, 2000, 2003, 2007) etc – in built obsolesce - who
wants to be 5 years out of date</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">So maybe there is implicit marketing spin, in "web 2.0
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> I don't think people will jump onto web 3 and web 4
with the same enthusiasm – tends to run out after a while </span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Related thoughts on the train with a couple of IT types I ran
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<p><font color="black" face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;"><a href="http://thinkingcurriculum.decenturl.com/web2bubble" target="_blank">http://thinkingcurriculum.decenturl.com/web2bubble</a></span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></font></p>
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<p><i><i><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Rob </span></font></i></i></p>
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