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Web 2.0 was built around the open source/social platform and it was created by no single person but by millions of people who all shared the same ideas of how they would like the internet to work. Basically the internet became functional for many regular joes to submit content. Watch for the corporations to try to take that power back.
http://www.videosift.com/video/New-Media-Douchebags-in-Plain-English
Web 2.0 : People publish whatever they want (within the terms of use) for free (provided they license their contribution indefinitely and provide an email address) on a huge corporate site surrounded by advertising, and then other people come along and say "FIRST!" and "LAME!" and "ILLUMINATI NWO OMFG!" and "VI@GRA SIDENAF1L MEDS CANADA" and "http://girls.ru" and "TX 4 ADD!"
btw, some people have been writing about the misguidedness of Web 2.0 since the start... http://theregister.com/ particularly Andrew Orlowski.
This doesn’t surprise me. I know of a few notable exceptions, but many of the folks from the venture capital firms I’ve come in contact with over the years seem separated by light-years from the bleeding edge of tech culture. I remember when I was working on one of my old startups back in the early days of podcasting, and having to explain time and time again first the concept of time-shifting, then the concept of RSS, and then the concept of podcasting, and then on top of that what made my solution unique in the very narrow field of four or five people making money from podcasting at the time. It floored me that I had to spell out in such kindergarten language what I did to folks who supposedly invested in technology for a living! My personal experience tells me that a lot of VC folks just read the headlines of the tech blogs, and that’s about it.
The long-standing problem is this glut of web 2.0 apps that have come out all with similar shiny logos and silly names like gluba, stikrr etc. They clearly aren't going to be in it for the long haul unless they have nailed something absolutely superbly.
I use a few productivity-orientated sites that have real value to me and I count Gmail among them. Google sites apart, any business that doesn't charge for their service is probably without anything of real value.
maybe I'm wrong here.
mostly it was a way for airheads to get funding from gullible VCs. "bubble 2.0" was the best concise critique i found.
RIP Web 2.0, we won't miss you.
I've started another thread to handle that discussion:
Blogging Is Dead; Long Live Blogging
Mashable posts daily a dizzying number of articles that chronicle the changes happening now on the Internet. It regularly provides lists of resource sites for different web activities.