Web 2.0 = The Global SOA (InfoWorld)

With all of the talk about Web 2.0, I was wondering were the heck that term came from. The term Web 2.0 was originally coined by O'Reilly's Dale Dougherty to describe the forces behind the huge post-dot-com success of Internet companies like Google, eBay, Amazon, and iTunes, as well as noncommercial, emergent Web-born creations such as Wikipedia and BitTorrent. Clearly, the Web has become the platform of choice for many organizations, and with success of SaaS (Software as a Service) companies such as Salesforce.com and NetSuite, this is quickly becoming true. Also, we are clearly moving from dynamic visual interfaces to dynamic non-visual services, all accessible over the Internet. All of this is Web 2.0, or better yet the Global SOA.