Has Web 2.0 made things really better?

[Tahuti]

You seem to focus on the YouTube comments as Web 2.0, but may I ask - aren't the YouTube Videos much more web 2.0? After all, if interactivity is key, then giving the ability to 'ordinary' People to share created Content is the key of web 2.0? Sites like Soundcloud or even Facebook much more than silly comments below Content (may it be a Video or a newspaper article).

Because we don't have to argue that Internet comments don't add much value to a discussion.

Well, I agree both are aspects of Web 2.0. However, it also means that Web 2.0 is mixed big. I don't think it is undividedly an improvement.

 

[warpus]

Essentially, the two are almost the same. 'Web 2.0' is basically about WWW having turned into one social network.

Well, it depends on who you talk to. If you ask a web developer, a lot of us have a bit of a slightly unique view of what "web 2.0" is. In a lot of our minds, web 2.0 and "social media" arrived at a similar time - but aren't the same thing. I'd guess that most of us wouldn't really say that "web 2.0" is very well defined either.