Definition of Web 2.0

In Steven Johnson’s Time magazine article “Its All About Us“, he gives what maybe the simplest definition of Web 2.0 that I have seen yet:

If web 1.0 was organized around pages, web 2.0 is organized around people.

Of course, boiling something done to its very essence sometimes isn’t very helpful. It might be better to say Web 2.0 is social. Though frankly, I don’t think people understand the term “social”. Because of our video game age, a better term would be “interactive.”

Web 2.0, then, is the interactive web.