The social web for dummies

Another term for whom is tired with web2.0 vocabulary is "Social Web"...Yeahhhh.
I personnaly think it's more explicit and show the evolution form static content to dynamic content and now to user generated content. Social Web is growing because we have finally reach a certain volume of users that volunteer to enrich the web content. It's a matter of fact that social web is working on light content or non litteral content like photo (flick.com) or video (youtube.com). To make "volunteer" work you need to attract them on something that interest them, that's why we will see an increasing number of vertical site or niche site where the "volunteer" has the feeling to serve a community (and be recognized within that community).

Now, the reverse side of the medal is that amongst the volume of volunteers we face a lot of spammer that use this opportunity to market their business. Social tagging is lacking controlled vocabulary and can lead to real misfunction in the long term, human are lazy by definition and it's the kindom of Idiots. I personnaly trust the community but it's true that allowing everybody to "enrich" content is dangerous.