Gartner: Web 2.0 to make waves in enterprise caught my attention because I hope that the “jazzing up the web” work I’m doing to help individuals and small groups of individuals will also be of value to the enterprise, enabling me to work for fun and for profit:
- Technologies under the Web 2.0 umbrella predicted to have a high impact on businesses are AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and XML development techniques for enhancing the responsiveness and usability of Web applications), and mashups, the joining together of multiple online applications to create a new service). These are also expected to reach maturity in less than two years.