The top-10 words for defining web 2.0

posted 11:24PM Aug 02, 2006 with tags ajax definition folksonomy statistics web20 by Lars Trieloff

Nearly everyone that knows the terms Web 2.0 knows the "Web 2.0 definition game": Ask two people what "Web 2.0" means and you will get 3 definitions. 37signals asked 500 people and got 500 definitions and while reading those comments is quite entertaining, I was asking myself "What are the words used in most Web 2.0 definitions". I feed a word frequency analyzer with the results, removed obvious stopwords and got following list:
  1. Web (320 mentions)
  2. Applications (and Apps, 128 mentions)
  3. More (99 mentions)
  4. Ajax (98 mentions)
  5. New (75 mentions)
  6. 2.0 (59 mentions)
  7. User (51 mentions)
  8. Me (47 mentions)
  9. You (39 mentions)
  10. Desktop (35 mentions)

runner-ups are: Internet, People, Sites, Content, Think, Using, Software, Interactive, Next and Services.

Now, when you build your own defintions, remember to use the Top-10 words for defining web 2.0 to stay folksonomy compatible.

Web 2.0 means more new ajax applications for desktop users like you and me.

If you've got other ideas, add them in the comments. Interestingly, words like Social (23 mentions), Hype (21 mentions) or Collaborations (13 mentions) which had been part of my Web 2.0 definition don't show up in the Top-10 and Folksonomy is mentioned only once and Tag and Tagging are mentioned ten times.