I think the definitive statement on Web 2.0 was Tim O'Reilly's Sept 2005 essay. It's definitely a technology play! Yes, it enables new social phenomena — lifestyle, community etc — but the underpinnings are based on platform technologies that allow loosely coupled entities to cooperate. You can read Tim's essay here:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/…

In many ways, the Voice 2.0 concepts are based around the same ideas. What would the world look like if you had loosely coupled assets, like databases and other kinds of applications, which could be accessed programmatically via voice? What would your experience as a customer be like if you could buy the services you wanted from whomever you wanted in any combination you cared to?

Hope that helps!

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It sounds like the event was a success!

Speaking of 2.0s, there was a conference in Toronto this week called mesh (www.meshconference.com) for the Web 2.0 Community. It was a fantastic meeting of the minds and will become an annual event.

Voice 2.0. That's an interesting concept. Could you elaborate on that? We found that the term Web 2.0 (or, the second generation of the Internet) really refers to a lifestyle and a community feeling rather than a new software platform. Ruby on Rails isn't the definitive Web 2.0 characteristic after all!

Looking forward to reading your reply.

Best regards,

Stephanie
http://www.voices.com