Tim O'Reilly attempts to clarify just what is meant by Web 2.0, the term first coined at a conference brainstorming session between O'Reilly Media and MediaLive International, which also spawned the Web 2.0 Conference.
OStatus lets people on different social networks follow each other. It's transparent to your friends, colleagues and family which software or service you use. They can get your status updates on their own sites and reply, like, or re-post your updates.
OStatus isn't a new protocol; it applies some great protocols in a natural and reasonable way to make distributed social networking possible.
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