Web 2.0

The latest job applicant claims to be an expert in Web 2.0.

Is Web 2.0 even a thing any more? I loved it when it first came out a few years ago… well, technically, there was nothing to “come out” at all. It’s just a concept, like “cloud”, that marketing people throw around but which has no substance behind it.

At Zing we joked about putting a big seal on our company home page saying Zing is “Web 2.0 Certified”. Anyone who knows something about web development would get a good laugh from it, and anyone who doesn’t would think it’s pretty impressive. But to see it on a resume from a job applicant… hmm…