Barrier to Web 2.0

**TimSchroeder** · 09-08-2007, 12:40 AM

jcatcw writes "Wikis, social networks, and other Web 2.0 technologies are finding resistance inside companies from the very people who should be rolling them out: the IT staff. The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) in London had to bypass IT to get Web 2.0 technologies to end users. Both Morgan Stanley and Pfizer are rolling out Web 2.0 projects, but it took some grass roots organizing to get there."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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**joder** · 09-08-2007, 12:54 AM

For an intranet project, I don't think all the bells and whistles of Web 2.0 are necessary. XHTML, CSS, a language such as PHP or ASP.Net with a database is. JavaScript should be kept to a minumum and Flash non-existent.

Now for the public, who view many sites as entertainment and like flashy design, that's another story.