Are you ready to “geek out” today?
Usually Eric writes the geek posts, but I’ve been reading about a topic that I’m glad I can introduce before he gets a chance. Sucker! 
From the guys who coined the term “Web 2.0,” at O’Reilly, comes a brand new concept for the future of the web. Enter “Web Squared.”
What in the world is Web Squared?
Basically, it’s taking Web 2.0 to a whole new level. John Battelle and Tim O’Reilly compare Web Squared to a baby who is growing up and getting to know the world around it — meeting the world, interacting, and getting smarter.
Here’s a great definition of Web Squared, written by Dion Hinchcliffe.
Web Squared articulates a broader fusion between the world-at-large, the Web, and the people connected to it. It’s a more extreme view of Web 2.0 while at the same time hinting that while social computing has been a major transformative force recently in the consumer world and beyond, the’s relentless growth of devices, network connectivity, and sensors into our lives across our homes, workplaces, and external environment is casting an growing “information shadow” that is increasingly hard to ignore.
Watch the Presentation
Here’s the presentation that took place live on June 25, 2009. You can hit play and listen to it while you work. It’s almost an hour long, really geeky in parts, and the audio is a little grainy, but overall a great webcast.
Listen to it with the ears of your church or organization, and think about how it can embrace the future of the web to reach our world.
Profound impact to organizations…
Dion Hinchcliffe says, like Web 2.0, “web Squared is likely to have profound impact to the societies and organizations, either way, that choose to understand it or ignore it.”
Today’s word is “Web Squared.” Make sure you use it a couple of times to make folks think you’re a genius. More importantly, dig in, learn more about it, and figure out how churches can embrace this in a proactive way instead of reactive.
This is just a taste. We’ll definitely be unpacking this idea as we learn more about it.
Thoughts?
Totally agree. I recently did a webinar trying to apply this to the local church and for ministries. You can skip the history and go about 9 minutes in to talk about how our life will restructured to this web/Internet cloud: http://www.vimeo.com/4415857
Drew, I appreciate the feedback and link. This is great information. I’d love to get another think tank together to further unpack this subject.
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